Olds92

Hello, the rear of the 96 Olds Aurora has the air shocks/struts. Is there a conversion kit out there?

Boldsmobile

What are you trying to convert it to?

No struts in the back. Its plain ole air shocks. Should be $80 per pair.

Yellowstatue

X2 on the 'no struts'. Be sure to get the air shocks with the correct fittings so you won't have to mess around with adapters...

Boldsmobile

I have purchased Monroes (not generic but for the application) for both my 96 and my 01 and both fit exactly.

Olds92

Is there anyway you can use just a normal gas shock? No air shock?

Boldsmobile

You probably could find something to fit but I am curious why would you want to do that.

They arent expensive @ $80 per pair and the auto ride height adjustment is nice when you have passengers in the back seat.

Oldsguy

So I presume that instead of being routed to a Schroeder valve in the bumper or someplace similar the hoses go to an on-board pump of some kind? I think my '99 Buick Le Sabre has a system similar to that. Auto leveling.

aliensatemybuick

As these cars with load leveling suspension get older, I can see where any number of failures (to the ride hieight sensor, air compressor system, hoses, etc.) could become expensive to fix or difficult to even diagnose. That's why people have been known to try and avoid all that and go with standard shocks. I loked into this on a 1987 Park Avenue T-type I owned where the system failed; the ride height sensor alone was pretty expensive, nearly 200 bucks as I recall.

Boldsmobile

exactly

Olds92

I work at a parts store and a good customer of mine asked about it and I told him I'd look into it. We dont offer a conversion kit and I looked in the Monroe catalog and didn't find one. Couldn't you just find a shock of the same length and same bolt down and use that??

Boldsmobile

If you work at a parts store can you pull the correct Monroes out of the box and starting checking other shocks? I am curious as to why you called them struts.

If you remove the air shocks the pump is likely to always want to fill the shocks if the height sensor sees it as too low.

Yellowstatue

If you delete the air shocks, simply unplug the compressor...people in the back seat? I thought it was when you had a BB Olds in the trunk for traction...