Shock Absorber for Seat

Bobl1958 · Aug 5, 2016

I posted on the Case Board but not having much luck. Looking for some type of a number for a shock absorber for the older style seat on the 700 to early 730 Case seats. The seat bracket has the rubber bushing in it, but it's so cantilevered back that I bottom it out. I have seen several instances where someone used a shock absorber from a car to go from the upper toplink bracket to the underneath side of the seat bracket to hold it up.

Does anyone know what shock absorber would work, or what model of older vehicle one would have come from. All the auto parts stores look at me like I'm an idiot (maybe for good reason) when I ask for a short shock absorber with no model number or vehicle model to go by. Thanks for the help - Bob

Geo-TH,In · Aug 5, 2016

Post a pic of seat. Monroe made after market seats for Ford's and my farmall C has a Monroe shock absorber. Google Monroe seats for tractors.

gab · Aug 5, 2016

Don't have any idea what your seat looks like but it must have some kind of spring. I think the only way a shock is going to raise the height is if it's too long, bottomed out. A shock is just made to take the bounce out of it.

NEKS · Aug 5, 2016

Have a Monroe seat on my F-20 and went to the auto parts store and ordered a new shock and it works perfect. The number on the old one did not help, but the parts man pulled out a book under the counter that must of listed 500 different shocks. Had it the next day.

gene bender · Aug 5, 2016

the shock will not hold the seat up the spring does that

glennster · Aug 5, 2016

look into a coil over shock absorber. napa should have a listing as aftermarket replacements for cars and light trucks. kind of like a helper spring. you can also look at someone like jegs that supply hot rod parts. you may have to buy a pair, some are sold individually.

oc-18guy · Aug 5, 2016

the older style seat on a cockshutt 550 had a shock absorber it also had a spring under the seat maybe something like that would work for you. I do not have a part# at the moment.

rustred · Aug 5, 2016

i did the same thing on a 900 case. used an old 1/2 ton shock that had the coil spring around it. thats what held the seat up and he shock did its job. an ordinary shock wont work too good as you need the shock to extend which the coil spring does that after it retracts. i mounted it behind the seat upright, made the btm. mount with a piece of angleiron. i still have one more of those old shocks.

dkeav · Aug 5, 2016

I put Monroe MA785 $64 for two online, they're airshocks but work awesome for this. You'll probably have a hard time finding a shock to fit on the top link setup. I don't use my lift on 800-b so I just made another bracket instead. You could probably use a harley davidson airbag though between under the seat frame.

Just did a 3 day cruise on the 900, the airshock was amazing for ride. Wasn't quite stiff enough at first, added 5 more lbs at lunch and perfect.

Adirondack case guy · Aug 5, 2016

I was going to post on the Case forum tonight, after takeing some pics today of your/my seat suspension.
Mine has a broken Y shaped support link, first pic. Make sure that is not broken. Second, loosen both threaded cast knobs. The one on the side of the seat allows you to adjust ride heigth by changing where the ancor tab for the rubber coil spring is located. Then you screw the knob on the top of the seat frame down to control the ride, stiff or soft. My Y bracket is broken, and I am tall and I am going to fab a new one that is longer, to raise the ride heidth. If your rubber spring is good, just take a good look at how the suspension adjusts and make the proper adjustment to the rubber coil. If the rubber coil is bad, go to the Case forum and get ahold of John S., he has new ones you can buy. You don't need to mount a coil over shock!!!
Loren

D beatty · Aug 5, 2016

Watch out buying automotive shocks my IH 450 had two spring over automotive shocks on it when I got it. They were way to stiff and I weighed 250 lbs. at the time. I took them off and found the correct shock, spring and rubber bushing.

mj · Aug 5, 2016

How about an overload/air shock? 8)

dkeav · Aug 5, 2016

(quoted from post at 17:04:08 08/05/16) I was going to post on the Case forum tonight, after takeing some pics today of your/my seat suspension.
Mine has a broken Y shaped support link, first pic. Make sure that is not broken. Second, loosen both threaded cast knobs. The one on the side of the seat allows you to adjust ride heigth by changing where the ancor tab for the rubber coil spring is located. Then you screw the knob on the top of the seat frame down to control the ride, stiff or soft. My Y bracket is broken, and I am tall and I am going to fab a new one that is longer, to raise the ride heidth. If your rubber spring is good, just take a good look at how the suspension adjusts and make the proper adjustment to the rubber coil. If the rubber coil is bad, go to the Case forum and get ahold of John S., he has new ones you can buy. You don't need to mount a coil over shock!!!
Loren

Agreed get the ones John has, I got an apparently chinese one from another vendor and it lasted 3 days before ripping with my chunky 260 on it.

504 · Aug 5, 2016

Gene is right, shocks do not hold you up,springs do. Shocks stop the yo yo effect.

FBH44 · Aug 6, 2016

Exactly. Springs resist lbs. force, shocks resist fps velocity.

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