[Maricopa]

Very nice Hoof!

I am guessing Bilstein are not cooperating because they suplied the shock as requested. FFR converted it to a coilover and decided it would work at an angle

I think this is basically true. The vast majority of the shock failures have been attributed to 'bad' springs that were being sent out, supposedly after a supplier changed their specs. These springs had too many coils and on a hard bump would lock up sending all that energy right into the shaft. The other thing that was happening was the spring becoming unloaded at full droop and coming back to rest on the cup in a cockeyed position, putting large side-loads on the shaft. These are all things out of B-stein's hands and IMO they shouldn't have to answer for it.

Besides the things I mentioned above I think an underlying reason for the breakage is that the B-steins simply are too small. I don't have the buckage right now to buy the Konis but I have a friend that did and gave me his old Pro Shocks. Besides this shock being an actual coil-over rather than a conversion the shaft is .070" larger, the body larger and the spring dia larger. Why in the hell, if not simply to save money, would they have downsized the shocks?