Thread: Can Bilsteins be mounted upside down?

Most should be mounted with the main body uppermost.

Only ones I can think of off the top of my head that are the other way up are the remote resevoir Ome's

Originally Posted by walker

Well can they? I am guessiing yes, but I thought I better check.

Add which way is "upside down"?

I was going to mount the front shocks with te main cylinder at the top and the rod and cover at the bottom but this makes the writing upside down.

thanks.

Yes they can, I have spoken to Tony at Heasmans and he told me that I could, They were going to mod some patrol shocks so that I could run them in the front of my Disco, also all the buggy shocks they run in off road racing are run upside down.

Give Heasmans/Sydney Shocks a call.

Baz.

Bilsteins upside down are no problems. The gas in them is captive so it doesn't interfer with the oil and valving.

can I be the dumb one today and ask why you want to do this?

Most common case in the LandRovers is to run the longer LandCruiser shocks, except at one end the Landcruiser has its mount types as opposite to what LandRover has - so you just run the shock upsidedown.

A lot of remote canister shocks are also run upsidedown so that the remote canister can be mounted to the body.

...and race car dampers are mounted shaft towards whatever is actuating it as it reduces unsprung weight ever so slightly.

Basically any damper that uses a floating piston to separate the gas from the oil can be mounted any which way.

H Slunnie, no I am running the special Les Richmond long Bilstein shocks at the front.

Reason I was looking at running upside down is that the fatter sleeve which goes over the rod section hits on a bolt at the bottom of the spring mount. I think this is due to the angle of ration of the axle because of he spring lift. The other end of the shock is skinnier so it fits.

Gday Walker, ahhh ok that sounds fair enough. Thats for the front shock I'm guessing. The front isn't particularly suceptable to damage anyway. The other option may be to space the shock slightly if it has a pinned lower, but upsidedown will do the trick anyway. Will the body clear inside the turret when articulating?