farmington

iTrader: (14)

going to change my shocks. Car has 60k miles on it. Will I need topmounts for the front shocks? Hate to spend $100 on new if the old ones should still be good

BMR Sales2

iTrader: (40)

Your strut mounts should be in pretty good shape with that mileage but you won't really know till you get everything apart and can visually inspect them.

smitty2919

I had about 60K on my mounts and I reused them.

Be prepared to possibly grind away the top mount retaining nut (with a spring compressor installed UNDER TENSION) since the top of the mounts are GREAT places for water and debris to sit and rust the threaded shock rod/nut. My drivers side was fine...passenger side, not so much.

farmington

iTrader: (14)

Thanks

SteveC

I went with the Bilstein "B6" shocks and was able to use the existing stock hardware in the front. Sara (2001 Z28) had 40k original miles.

I live in a very dry climate.

Jaxem

iTrader: (3)

Ditto to what's been said, just did mine with 60k on them too, quite a bit of rust around the nut, but the mounts were just fine to re-use.

With a lot of PB blaster and a couple sets of vicegrips on the shock shafts i was able to get the nut off, but man was it a pain...

smitty2919

^I had no patience for the PB blaster etc. Used spring compressors and went to town on it with a carbide bit on a 1/4" die grinder lol. I have/had no use for keeping 60K stock shocks lol.