Ironman springs with other brand struts?

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Went for a wheel in Lerderderg State forest today and having the wife and kids in the car and a mate in his first 4x4 we didn't do anything particularly hard but after dong Radcliffe track I heard a clunking in the driver side front end. The strut had snapped at the bottom shaft where it is welded to the main shocker body. Lucidly it dropped straight and I was able to drive home.
I'm aware that Ironman are not the best quality but was wondering if I could replace both front struts with Old Man Emu, EFS, etc without doing the springs as well?
Does anyone have Ironman springs with other shocks?

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Should be fine. Just check in the suspension database and find a match for another shock with the same closed length or shorter and the same extended length or longer.

And change both sides.

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Most of the springs are similar rates and lengths for a given duty so should work with different struts; check in here

http://www.pradopoint.com/showthread...nsion-Database

Having said that my Toughdog struts did the same thing and I was going to just replace the front struts to keep the $ down. Not many places are interested in doing that particularly when it came to warranty on the new struts and in the end I just replaced the whole lot with OME.

Post up some pics, be interested to compare the failure with the Toughdogs.

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Thanks for the replies and the link. I'll post up some pics later.