1966 has air shocks

[joej]

Greetings,
I recently purchased a 1966 T-Bird as a project car. It has air shocks on the rear. I do not think this would be factory, but I am learning about this vehicle as I go. Has anyone else experience this with their T-Birds. Could be the leaf springs started flattening out because of vehicle weight. I would prefer to go back with a standard shock. Any insight would be appreciated.

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[Patrick 6365]

Monroe or KYB should be easily available for the rears. Never any factory air shocks offered on theses cars.

 

[joej]

Thx

 

[700wildcat]

air shocks were a pretty common modification in the 70's. Friends were putting them on pretty much everything.

 

[Tom Alpers]

Don't know about the flairbirds but I've seen comments from several people who used air shocks on baby birds and thought they worked fine. Don't use a t-fitting, use separate inflation lines for each shock even if you use the same pressure in each. T-fittings make handling on curves worse.