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Pop Goes Pete's Coil!
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Author:  Se7enLC [ Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Pop Goes Pete's Coil!
For discussion purposes, here's a photo of Pete's rear suspension at full articulation. You can see the spring sorta "floating" around in there, not being limited by the shock.

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So are you going to go for a whole lift, or just replace those coils, since you already have longer shocks? I bet you can wedge the coils in there with a little help of a jackstand and maybe a ratchet strap or prybar. If you take the swaybar off, it'll go even easier. I wonder what it'd look like if you did just the rear coil and not the front struts....

OME coils are like $66 each, a pair of rusty's coils for $129, a pair of skyjackers are about the same, $130.
Author:  raceinfan [ Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:01 pm ]
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that is a sick picture if I do say so my self :shock: :D there is a discussion about this in one of the top sections,I believe the 4x4 section which I put in a reply about my experiance anyways from what it's saying Rusty's doesn't have the bumpstop to help cure this like the Franken does with these shocks so I'm kinda stumped right now I do believe a spacer lift would cure it but I don't think I'll be going that route,decissions dicissions :?
Author:  Se7enLC [ Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:05 pm ]
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raceinfan wrote:
that is a sick picture if I do say so my self :shock: :D there is a discussion about this in one of the top sections,I believe the 4x4 section which I put in a reply about my experiance anyways from what it's saying Rusty's doesn't have the bumpstop to help cure this like the Franken does with these shocks so I'm kinda stumped right now I do believe a spacer lift would cure it but I don't think I'll be going that route,decissions dicissions :?


bump stops are just cheap little plastic circules to prevent the coil from falling out, you could throw a pair of those in yourself pretty easily, and I bet they don't cost more than $10 or so. The real issue is that the shock is too long for the spring, so either a longer spring or a spacer would cover it. rear springs are cheap and easy to do - if you threw a pair of OME springs and bump stops in back there you'd have a pseudo-frankenlift rear. Then do a spacer in the front or something equally cheap and you're golden!
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