Spudcannons
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Has anyone needed upper shock relocations with the rock star skids or any issues with ride change?
It will depend on the compressed length of your shocks and the amount of bump-stop you run. I run Rock Stars with 2" bump and didn't need to relocate the upper.
You should be able to work out the need with a tape measure. Also, make sure your coils have enough length in them from the added droop. My Matalcloak coils are close and there is no way they will work with the wife's Synergy coils without adding spring retainers.
Curious what is the collapsed length of your shocks? The Evos raise the mounts 1.5" correct?
Curious what is the collapsed length of your shocks? The Evos raise the mounts 1.5" correct?
that is correct. factory mounting holes are 15'' at full bump. if 2'' bump stops are added you now have 17'' between mounting holes. moving lower mounting hole back up 1.5'' puts a person at 15.5'' of mounting holes at full bump. shocks longer than 15.5'' and you'll be using your shocks as bump stops.
The problem I see with this is that the shock is not mounted completely vertical. Since the axle moves on an arc and the shocks are mounted at an angle greater than the arc of axle swing ther is a bit more math involved to work out the usable travel and required bump. As much as an engineer nerd as I am, I just stuffed the tire with a fork truck until the shock was compressed almost completely. Then measured the distance the distance between the bump holder and axle plate with a tape measure. In my case, it was just over 2" but I thought the rubber bump wouldn't squish completely so I opted for 2". So far, this was worked.
So let's say you took out your springs and foam stops. Put the tires back on and set the jeep on the ground at absolute full bump. You're telling me your shocks would bolt right up?
Besides, 2" bump stops and 37" tires isn't the best way. Tires hit sheet metal and requires way too much cutting for me.
I'm using the bilsteins that evo sells with their long arm kit. Any idea if the would work? 35" tires and matching bumps from evo
With the foam bump out I would miss it by about 1/4"... With foam in, no problem. Even with the rear supported entirely by one side the foam had about 3/8" left to it.
I lengthened my arms about 1/2" to recenter the axle in the hole. I had to trim some front and rear but it really wasn't that bad.
I would use Olram30's math to be safe.... If you are really looking to tweak and make the most of it you could try my method.
I still don't see how you gained that extra inch with 2"bump stops going back up 1.5" with rock stars. But I guess we'll agree to disagree.
Any way to figure out the shock length? Any ideas on cycling the suspension without a lift of nice size rock?
Look for a rock, loading ramp anything you can get as much stuff as you can. Besides math, here I found a rock and used a tape measure. I measured from the bottom of the metal cup to the top of the bump stop. Then measured remaining shaft. I have the exact same measurement on both. And looking at the dust ring I'm using all available shock travel.