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1982 C/K 6.0L Caitlyn Mall Crawler (Interior time)
- Thread starter Babaganoosh
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Hair will come off with that bandaid..
My desk at work rubs it when I move the mouse so I put the bandaid on.
Something like this would work great.
I know a guy who has one of those...
Is that pivot point really single shear or am I missing something?
That's the first thing I saw. I would shear that 1/2" bolt off in short time.
I don't know how you'd double shear that without cutting off movement
Plenty of room if it is offset down the frame enough. I wonder how big the bearing is?
Can't you just angle the shock and valve it right? I wouldn't think leafs necessitate anything that complicated.
No.. digressive is digressive, which means the shock is slowing down and really kills the effectiveness of its job at the point it matters the most, bump, you want the truck to prevent that the last few inches. It matters less with a position shock like a bypass. Because it can create its own progressive curve.
The other reason is to use a short shock with long travel. I used a 12 inch shock with a travel of 16 inches without changing the motion ratio curve.
When you angle a shock it does lots of funny things.
Btw the valving is velocity dependent, so if the shock shaft velocity changes in the mid stroke the effective valving and its impact will also, which is why so much attention should be paid to reducing the changes the shock is seeing so the tune is more predictable and like you said can be valved properly.
I don't know how much lift @Babaganoosh has but with 5" of lift on mine I can fit Bilstein 7100 short body reservoir shock with 14" travel or 12" standard body straight up. IIRC both have the same collapsed length.
I've been running shocks angled forward and I don't like the rear suspension behavior. I think it may be the angle. Here in the near future I'll be mounting the 12" travel standard body 7100 shocks vertical in the rear. Interested to see the difference.
I've been running shocks angled forward and I don't like the rear suspension behavior. I think it may be the angle. Here in the near future I'll be mounting the 12" travel standard body 7100 shocks vertical in the rear. Interested to see the difference.
I'm really not sure where im at, I think around a 4 inch lift. The coil over is set at a 48/53 split. It barely fits under my garage door by about a inch or so.
With our trucks the springs travel rearward anyway unless you are compressing them past flat.. so rear angled shocks makes sense.
Is there any reason you can't run a shock straight up through the wheel well with a shock hoop? And then maybe a removable brace side to side. That wouldn't limit the use of your bed very much at all
I did front angle because I was thinking of axle wrap. Thinking about what you're saying then I'm thinking even more that I need to change them.
Love this new picture of the truck, this is for everyone that said I couldn't do it...
