This may have been mentioned in the past but I cant find that thread.

How would i go about disabling the rear air shocks. Just getting old and acting up, sometimes the pump runs for a long time and will get worse this winter. They are munroe shocks, replaced a few years back.

1) My thought is, park somewhere flat with equal weight have the air shocks adjust.
2) Find and pull the fuse out? Not sure where. Can someone help?

any other ideas or heads up.

thanks

This may have been mentioned in the past but I cant find that thread.

How would i go about disabling the rear air shocks. Just getting old and acting up, sometimes the pump runs for a long time and will get worse this winter. They are munroe shocks, replaced a few years back.

1) My thought is, park somewhere flat with equal weight have the air shocks adjust.
2) Find and pull the fuse out? Not sure where. Can someone help?

any other ideas or heads up.

thanks

1&2 both.

I did this with my van too.

Since I got rid of my Silo I don't have the manual anymore.

The fuse is in one of two boxes.

Either at the right end of the dash (fuse panel, cover shows which fuse does what and the other is underhood, overtop the battery, also marked inside the cover.

IIRC the fuse is in the box inside the van as that is also the way I disabled my system many years ago.

I have a 99 Montana with the same air shock system. If you pull the fuse, you will not be able to use the air compressor for inflating tires and other things. What you should do is go to Advance auto parts for they have a gas shock that is available for your van. Simply throw the air shocks away and put in the new gas shocks. Now, follow the air lines up to the first fitting and cut them off right before the fitting. Now, find a little black box that has a rod that attaches to your rear axle. It has an electrical harness that plugs into it. This is your ride level sensor that tells your air compressor to stay on because your ride height is too low. Unplug the harness from this box and just tuck it or tie it up somewhere. Now your compressor will not stay running and you can still use it by pressing the ON button to inflate tires and stuff.

I put on the Monroe aftermarket air shocks less than 5,000 miles ago.

I took a family trip and parked in a hotel lot and went out side to enjoy the evening. I heard this car alarm going off and looked around to see no one in the area. I walked toward the sound to see what were it was originating from and was shocked to find it coming from my own the van. The darn alarm started going off and there was no one but me in the area. It turns out the air compressor was coming on and this was causing the alarm to set off from the vibration and/or noise from the air shocks and compressor. I had to pull the fuse or the alarm would have been going on and off all night with the compressor.

This makes me wonder if these aftermarket shocks are a problem since they do not seem to be able to hold the air charge whenever you have something extra in the back of the van. Anyone else having this type of problem? Why can't these shocks hold air after they are pumped up at least for a few hours?