Rear shock mounts started

[MNorby]

used a buddys shop yesterday. no too bad for just a torch and grinder but a plas woulda been alot cleaner. 10" fox external res shocks. Gotta order some ruff stuff shock tabs for the axle now

 

[bigblock72]

Looks nice, where'd you get the shocks at?

 

[MNorby]

buddy with the 02 d-max used to have a 12" lift and then went to a 15" lift and got all new CHROME (bling bling) fox shocks and had 4 of the 10" travels and 2 of the 14" travels left over. He didn't want to sell but he was hard up for some cash a while back and I got the 14ers for the front then and yesterday he was needing some cash for a front shaft for his cummins mud bogger so I bought a pair of the 10ers for the rear.

 

[vtblazer]

Sweet.

Want new shocks for mine, looking forward to the trail report.

 

[cbbr]

Looks good. You have a better shot of the mounts on the axles?

 

[MNorby]

Looks good. You have a better shot of the mounts on the axles?

http://www.ruffstuffspecialties.com/catalog/paired-bracket-p-43.html
waiting for them to show up

 

[Engineered Vintage]

Does that have a body lift? If so how much?

 

[cbbr]

I thought that looked strange.

 

[MNorby]

Does that have a body lift? If so how much?

yeah 1.5" body

 

[RGV72BLAZER]

a buddy of mine & i "argue" sometimes about inboarding the shocks like that. he says that doesn't work, but i say it does. i was thinking of mounting my rear shocks slightly rearward and in boarded...

 

[Engineered Vintage]

Technically, you get the ideal shock absorption when a shock is upright - I've heard good things about running rear shocks this way - I plan to do it as well.

 

[MNorby]

myself and a bunch of frineds run like this with good results. I went back and forth regarding axle wrap but ultimately decided that hanging the shock a few inches off the front of the alxe wasn't going to help vs the damage the shock could take. Going to build a traction bar if wrap is an issue with this setup.

 

[Greg72]

Technically, you get the ideal shock absorption when a shock is upright - I've heard good things about running rear shocks this way - I plan to do it as well.

Inboarded shocks have the benfit of being easy to install, and also give you more wheel travel than the shock would allow if mounted vertically. A 12" shock could probably give you 16" of wheel travel with an aggressive inboarding setup.

Down sides are that the shock doesn't have the same damping rates anymore. If you imagine that a shock has 100% damping effectiveness when mounted vertically and 0% effectiveness when horizontal (duh!) then you can extrapolate almost any other value in between. The set-up pictures (which looks like about 45* angle) would therefore provide 50% of the normal damping.

You will have less control on sidehills with an inboarded setup also....

 

[RGV72BLAZER]

Inboarded shocks have the benfit of being easy to install, and also give you more wheel travel than the shock would allow if mounted vertically. A 12" shock could probably give you 16" of wheel travel with an aggressive inboarding setup.

Down sides are that the shock doesn't have the same damping rates anymore. If you imagine that a shock has 100% damping effectiveness when mounted vertically and 0% effectiveness when horizontal (duh!) then you can extrapolate almost any other value in between. The set-up pictures (which looks like about 45* angle) would therefore provide 50% of the normal damping.

You will have less control on sidehills with an inboarded setup also....

& the blind man said, "i see"....good explanation

 

[MNorby]

nice thing about these shocks is can adjust the pressure to help compensate too