The thing on top is a bumpstop. 14" BBCS shock on a Ford tower. The springs allow very little uptravel.
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Are these shocks too long?
- Thread starter cbbr
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Hard to tell you without knowing excatly how much up-travel you have. I will say that looks very similiar to how my shock sits. I am running a 15" travel shock w/ 56" front springs. I can bottom mine out, so I built a bumpstop to prevent that.
I can jack the axle up without the shock hitting the bumpstop, but it is very close.
You will have more travel than that on the trail.
Can you move the shock towers up higher?
If you want to keep it where it is I think you will be fine. Nothing wrong with bumpstops.
How much shaft is exposed? Are you going to properly setup your bumpstops on the springs?
I see you got the BBCS shocks.
I see you got the BBCS shocks.
If the shock was to bottom out is the spring flat at that point.
Set your shock mounting location by spring travel.
Most of the time you want the spring to just be flat or ever so slightly reverse arched at full bump. From there I would give yourself a half inch or so more travel in the shock and call it good.
Stop the droop travel with a limit strap a 1/4" or so before the shock hits full droop.
Set your shock mounting location by spring travel.
Most of the time you want the spring to just be flat or ever so slightly reverse arched at full bump. From there I would give yourself a half inch or so more travel in the shock and call it good.
Stop the droop travel with a limit strap a 1/4" or so before the shock hits full droop.
The springs I have right now won't go flat. And the shock towers are about as high as I can get them before they start hitting other stuff.
Here's what I'd do:
This would tell you suspension travel to make the spring flat. If you can't flatten the spring for whatever reason, then if you've got more shock shaft exposed than the distance you measured you should be okay. Include area where the bump stop thing is because I know it will compress pretty far.
- Hang string across the spring from eye to eye
- Pull string tight
- Measure distance from top of spring to the string
This would tell you suspension travel to make the spring flat. If you can't flatten the spring for whatever reason, then if you've got more shock shaft exposed than the distance you measured you should be okay. Include area where the bump stop thing is because I know it will compress pretty far.
Will do, thanks.
