I bought the below shocks from Pep Boys and had them installed at a local shop. The front driver side shock bracket broke after a day or two. Pictures attached of front driver side, front passenger side and driver side rear. Also, it looks like the back shocks have scrape marks already.


1. Are these shocks not meant to be on a ranger? Looks like the shop added a washer to the front driver side but not the passenger drive side.

2. Do I need to replace all 4 shocks?

Front- Monroe Monro-Matic Plus Shock Absorber https://www.pepboys.com/monroe-monro....0L?quantity=1

Back- https://www.pepboys.com/monroe-monro....0L?quantity=1

 

Just looked closer and it looks like the shop cut the mounts to fit. So Sketchy!

 

Did you get this resolved? I'm replacing them tomorrow.

I think the Slot in the bottom of the fronts is by design. I sprayed Penetrating oil on my stuff today so it's easier in the AM.

 

Looks like i answered my own question.

 

Looking at your pictures, you have COIL SPRING front suspension,

The shocks you linked to for the front, are for TORSION BAR front suspension,

My guess is you bought the wrong shocks, and told the local shop to "PUT THESE ON", so they modified them to put them on, doing exactly what you told them to do.

 

Since you're holding the body of the shock right by the lower mount, that tells me that you have the correct shock, provided you have coil springs up front and not torsion bars.

The PO's problem as mentioned was that he had shocks for torsion bars on his coil spring truck and that's a recipe for disaster.

 

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You definitely have the wrong shocks up front.

You need the Coil Spring shocks and you bought the torsion bar shocks.

As far as the rear shocks. Idk what is going on there.

 

Finished the shock job. It was actually quite a bit easier than I thought. Shout out to WD-40 penetrating oil.

Anyone know if these were original? I thought OG's would say "FoMoCo" and not "Motorcraft"

 

Motorcraft is original. Most maintenance parts were branded as Motorcraft. Shocks qualify under that label. Hard parts that are not usual maintenance parts are stamped with a Ford logo.