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posted by  will rehsper on  Mon Sep 17 02:11 CST 2007
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I replaced the rear shocks on my 850 this weekend (1995 854, 163K miles) in a futile effort to improve the ride quality. The original shocks that I pulled off were just fine and there is no perceivable change in ride quality with the new OEM replacements. I probably won't do the struts now until it starts bouncing on the springs or clunking like a 240 suspension does when the struts go bad. For some reason I figured that the 850 setup masked this condition.

I will agree that at that mileage the sway bar links and lower control arms are probably shot. Mine were at 120K.

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