easy streets air struts

I have the sleeve over strut in the rear and I had to set it to the stiffest setting and the noise is pretty much gone.

Actually, I think it's safer to say that 99% of the time, a clunking sound from any aftermarket strut install is coming from a fastener come loose... and then after everything checks out tight, then 99% of the time, it's an internal valving problem. This is very similar to swapping aftermarket coilovers with replacement pillowball mounts on to strut cars... the top mount nuts will almost always loosen up after several miles, and need to be retorqued down 1-3 more times before they stay put (sorta like how wheel lug nuts "should" be retorqued on new wheels after several miles). Anyway, with that said, this is another reason I'm wary of easy street's stuff... a lot of it is sorta just tossed together to get it out on the market, and not a lot of extra thought/engineering goes into their products to actually make them as good as they could be. With the xB front struts, I know that just bolting them on would give people a major amount of positive camber, and easy street knew about it and did nothing to fix the problem for the longest time...all they cared about was that they were selling lots of them to uninformed folks who then had to get eccentric bolts and top camber plates to get their cars back within spec after installing the struts.
btw, ramon, have you found out what's restricting your front from going down anymore? It might be something simple to take care of to get that extra bit of drop you're looking for...

Edited: 3/15/2007 4:54:28 PM by AiredOut

Originally posted by FABLAB



The noise from the struts is 99% of the time coming from the valving inside the strut. I install a TON of shockwaves and whenever I have a "knocking" that sounds like a loose swaybar I know exactly what I have to do. I have to take the entire shock apart and flip the flapper valve over so it seats tight to the oriface all the time. It's a pain in the ass but it stops the noise and I can get it done in about 15 minutes per. The easy street struts have the same issue. The way to tell if that strut is going to make noise before you take all the time and put it in is to push down on the shaft and if it compresses AT ALL before you feel dampning (by AT ALL i mean even .5mm) it will make noise.

The noise thing I can get around, the only problem I have with the easy street stuff is sometimes it just doesn't go low enough. Great product though and they do stand up for their product. I installed some of their struts on an XB and one of them had a strange problem of locking up when you tried to lift it too quick but when lifted slowly it worked fine, they had a new one to me withen two days. Great Customer Service.

Hope my rambling helps.



You are absolutley corect there. Even air lift knows their struts are loud. They know its a problem with the shock valving, but they keep selling them anyways.

When i talked to them about the struts we installed on our scion, they said the company amnufacturing them for them was a little sloppy with the valving which makes them loud. They should have a new line of struts out within the next month or so, which is great for new customers, but they really dont give a shit about their old customers.

I am very, very disappointed with our air lift struts. Everything I had ever heard about them was good (good ride, good quality, good amount of lift). Since installing their easy street setup, i have found this all to be false. I will never use their products again because of their willingness to sell their customers products they know are fualty, and not making things right for them. Im going to be looking into either shockwaves or air runner struts for the front of our scion very soon.

Edited: 3/15/2007 6:38:47 PM by delirium

Edited: 3/15/2007 6:37:04 PM by delirium

The easystreet air sleeve struts are indeed very reliable and provide a great ride, but the damn noise just messes everything up, very annoying driving around with noise.

Since I have the universal chapman style struts, that I had to weld my lower mounts to it, I thought that maybe the heat messed something up inside the strut. Now I come to realize even the ones that are not universal applications do the same thing.

Just wished airlift would have caught that and provided a solution for it, and not just ignore it.

They dont make a kit for my car so I built my own struts and used universal airbags... My shit rides like a cady

Originally posted by One Ton Garage



Actually, I think it's safer to say that 99% of the time, a clunking sound from any aftermarket strut install is coming from a fastener come loose... and then after everything checks out tight, then 99% of the time, it's an internal valving problem. This is very similar to swapping aftermarket coilovers with replacement pillowball mounts on to strut cars... the top mount nuts will almost always loosen up after several miles, and need to be retorqued down 1-3 more times before they stay put (sorta like how wheel lug nuts "should" be retorqued on new wheels after several miles). Anyway, with that said, this is another reason I'm wary of easy street's stuff... a lot of it is sorta just tossed together to get it out on the market, and not a lot of extra thought/engineering goes into their products to actually make them as good as they could be. With the xB front struts, I know that just bolting them on would give people a major amount of positive camber, and easy street knew about it and did nothing to fix the problem for the longest time...all they cared about was that they were selling lots of them to uninformed folks who then had to get eccentric bolts and top camber plates to get their cars back within spec after installing the struts.btw, ramon, have you found out what's restricting your front from going down anymore? It might be something simple to take care of to get that extra bit of drop you're looking for...

wow man I install struts on a daily basis, at least one coil over setup a week and I have never had a top nut come loose.

As for getting the thing lower, the thing stopping you is the top of the strut housing hitting the upper bag plate, sometimes there is a small bumpstop (1/4") in there but thats it. You can get creative with barrings, lower strut mount, strut towers or just get factory struts and use the Universal Air strutbag. It works way better at letting the car get low because the strut body can go all the way through the bag and actually sit on the strut mount (or allow the strut to bottom out).

And yes Jay is the fucking man... I did what he told me to do it came out Perfect...

ronnie is there anything special you gotta do to get it to ride sweet?? you said your shit rids like a caddy..any tips out of the oridinary?

i got air struts on my car and they work good i had them on it for a year in the front and a couple of months in the back.

Well I bought new struts all four cut the spring bracket off ordered 4 universal bags and there brackets... Measured on how much I want to get low and to get the closes I could get to the tire without rubbing on the way down... I fliped the bag like Jay said and ran the airline from the top where I built my own Strut Top Mounts... Thats it... I can ride all the way down with no problem... Measure Twice Weld Once... two years later my rear are still the same bags and the front are new because I blew out the driver side bag with my 18s after I already measured for my stock wheels... Now I have a extra bag...