Installation Time
(approx) 30 Minutes
Difficulty Level:
Mechanical expertise or professional installation required.
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Justin: Hey, guys. I'm Justin with americanmuscle.com. And today, we're taking a quick look at and walking you through the install of the Bilstein B6 Performance Rear Quad Shock, available for all 86 to 04 solid rear axle Mustangs. Plain and simple here, guys, you should be checking out the Bilstein for your SN95 or New Edge if you're looking to improve rear end grip and handling while also reducing wheel hop that would otherwise be caused by a worn out or blown out set of factory dampers.So the big feature here will be for the Mustang owners who are still riding with that factory quad shock setup on your SN or New Edge and have just been noticing a sloppy rear end feel lately, whether through poor traction, wheel hop, or just generally loose overall. Now, the Bilsteins that we're talking about here today are specifically the B6 version of the axle damper, which is the horizontally mounted shock connecting the rear of the car to the axle itself. And basically, the purpose or responsibility of this shock here or damper is for controlling or preventing excess axle wrap under acceleration. And for those who don't know what that is, axle wrap is the unwanted twisting or rotating of the rear axle under hard acceleration that can cause the rear end to hop or bounce when getting really on the car. Now, by replacing the worn out factory axle dampers, you'll be on your way to a much improved rear end feel with dramatically less wheel hop.Now, the B6 that we have here today from Bilstein is gonna be a massive upgrade over the stock damper in just about every single way. For starters, heavy-duty 36-millimeter damper that will feature a monotube design, so basically a single internal piston here, and that's gonna help produce less cavitation and just a basically more consistent performance overall. Now, not only will the B6 improve different performance aspects of your SN or New Edge, but it'll also just help the car feel much better in normal driving situations, especially if you have been dealing with a blown-out or worn-out shock on your ride. Now, the best plan of action here, guys, obviously is to replace all four of the shocks in the rear end to ensure the best possible performance. I know that's gonna be a lot more money, and honestly, if you wanted to totally refresh everything, Bilstein does offer a B6 for both front and rear here of your SN and New Edge. So again, that's a little bit more of an investment, I don't deny that one bit. So if you just wanted to strictly stick to upgrading the horizontal quad shock, just make sure you're grabbing a pair as this particular shock is sold individually.Now this is a great time to segue into price point and the Bilstein will run you just right around 150 bucks per side. Honestly gonna be, I would say, the middle of the road option between a more basic factory OE replacement on the more budget-friendly side of things. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum, you have an option like the KONI, for instance, which will be a bit more expensive at the end of the day. So Bilstein, obviously a quality name, something you can trust, is gonna be an upgrade. Still cost you, I would say, middle of the road when compared to some of your other options.All right, moving into the installation, and the site is gonna call this one a soft three out of three wrenches on the difficulty meter. And my logic there is they're just assuming most owners are gonna knock this out with other suspension at the same time, but figure at least 30 minutes per shock here and you should be good to go. But now to give you a better idea of what to expect in the garage or driveway, here's a detailed walkthrough provided by an AM customer.Male: Tools for install, pry bar, ball peen hammer, 15 millimeter wrench or socket would do. Then we have a quarter inch ratchet with an 18 millimeter socket. So today we're going to be installing a new pair of B6 Bilstein quad shocks. I see these are pretty shot so we're going to be replacing those and getting some new ones on there. I did spray some penetrating oil beforehand. It's a 2001 Mustang so this could take a little bit of muscle but my hope is that with that spring on there I've let it sit for about an hour hoping that these bolts will come off pretty easily.So to start I've got a quarter inch ratchet, with a 15 millimeter socket. All right, and that will be for, I'm sorry, this is an 18 millimeter socket, and that will be for the back one first. So we'll go ahead and try to break these loose, hoping they're not too bad. Oh, that wasn't too bad at all. Until we can just spin it off by hand. I'm gonna remove a nut and a washer, put that off to the side because we will be reusing that. All right, for this front one, all right, we gotta go a little bit bigger. All right, I got a 7-8 socket on here. Again, hoping that we can break it loose in a timely manner. I'm gonna try to put this aside so that I can get a little bit of leverage downwards. You might have to use a little bit of a hammer to get a little kind of broken loose here. Yeah, I'm not working with power tools, so gotta work with what I got. Again, a ball-peen hammer would be a great way to go.So these definitely can get stuck on here. I'm trying to figure out how I can get a little more leverage. I don't have, with this tight space, it's definitely... All right, so you live and you learn. So again, this front one came off pretty easily. Again, we used a 18 millimeter socket on that with a ratchet. This back one, so this bolt is welded onto the car. So you're gonna use a 15 millimeter wrench or socket. I'm going to use a wrench just because there's not a lot of space back there. And then obviously lefty loosey. So we'll kind of proceed with taking this one out. And it still didn't move the best but we are making progress. And I can see that bolt spinning when coming down. Again, it is tight. So just make sure you're going in the right direction.Again, these bolts are pretty rusted, so I'm hoping that it all works out and nothing breaks. We'll be in a whole different scenario. And that front kind of sticks out of that nut, so it is gonna be hard to kind of re-thread that through. But once we get past that, we should be... Oh, see it's getting easier now. I'm putting my glove back on. Don't bust my knuckles. And you might be able to get a socket in here. Again, sometimes it's easier just to work with one wrench, but hopefully we get to a certain point where we can just pull them out of there. I do have a wrench that is socket, but again, work with a small area. Once you can get it past you just pull it on out. We got that bolt right there. And now it should pretty easily come off here. All right. And as you can see, that is our old piece. Pretty rough, pretty rough.So, that moves with no force at all. So anyway, I know this next one's gonna be hard to get back on. Okay, so you can compress this. Again, with our positioning, this is going to be pretty tough. So what we're going to do is get this bolt ready to go so that if I can compress this back in, you might be able to... So we're gonna try using, I have tiny pry bars here. So let's see if we can make something work with this. It is definitely challenging with this small space. All right. Okay, so the pry bar did help. You definitely still have to muscle it a little bit. We'll be careful just to not mess up that piece, but we did get it.All right, so once we can get that back in there, in that slot, hopefully we can use your backhand, yep, sounds like she's, feels like she's threading just fine. You're nice and tight. All right, now we gotta get that back bolt back in here. Try to stay out of the picture. Then we have a washer and a nut. So make sure that washer goes on first. There, a little follow up with the nut. Then we move back to the 18 millimeter socket. Now my shoulder's nice and tired. All right, there she blows. New shock installed.Justin: All right, guys, wrapping this one up here. If you are looking for what I would call a somewhat affordable upgrade over the stock quad shock setup for your SN or New Edge Mustang at home, be sure to check out the Bilstein B6, available right here at americanmuscle.com.
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Brand | Bilstein |
Shock Type | Non-Adjustable |
Fitment:
Bilstein 24-021494
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Installation Info
Installation Time
(approx) 30 Minutes
Difficulty Level:
Mechanical expertise or professional installation required.
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