Digger's new shocks

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:02 pm

hold on I will have a post up in a minute.. I had to stop and eat dinner :lol:

Boblemoche · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:03 pm

double post

Boblemoche · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:05 pm

unclejjg wrote:

Boblemoche wrote:

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Hahahahaha....you just can't keep this man down! Rear and front ARB, custom rear and front bumper, re-geared, a 4" lift and tires on the way, AND the dude gets top end shocks ordered before I can even look at them! Cripes!....your rig is going to make a few Rubicons turn their head.

I think I will put rubicon stickers on mine just to piss off real rubicon owners :lol:

If you really want to frost their fanny, you should get a "> Wrangler" (as in "greater than") sign.

they wont wheel with me anymore if i do that :lol:

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:05 pm

any one have the pn for the rancho shock that came with the 2.5 kit?

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:09 pm

E2 wrote:

Why new shocks? What where wrong with the shocks that came with the 4" JBA lift? Did it give you more height?

If you can buy other shocks then one might want to buy the coils, arms and braklines for the 4" JBA costing just under $1000 and then get the tracker bar for some cost. I'm I missing anything?

Nothing was wrong with them. I'm just a fan of gas charged shocks. Also I feel that the sky jacker ones are not the correct shocks to use for this set up because of how the guts work. If you had them on the vehicle that they were suppose to be on, they would work great. I did grow a little with the new shocks.

I came up with 900 bucks between the arms, coils, rear shocks and brake lines. Most of the cost if the lift is in the front components that are machined and the rear track bar that is hand fabricated

Scar0 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:19 pm

Diggerfreek wrote:

any one have the pn for the rancho shock that came with the 2.5 kit?

My bad I was thinking Rancho when it was Skyjacker.

Skyjacker Hydro 7000, PN: 435655-1107 LA# 08969 on one side of the box, on the other H7088 and c09215 9999B1 Bar code # 803696 141640

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:49 pm

All I needed was the h7088.. Thanks

So going back to earlier, the sky jacker shock is very close to the stock shock. The SJ is 24.84 x 14.82 ans OEM is 21.75 x 14.00

Now explaining my numbers, the first one is full extension and the second one is full compression.

Now the fox ones are 22.80 x 14.30 or 26.10 x 16.10

If the 22.80 were ran, under full flex, you may reach full un compression on the down ward tire before you react the true limit on the KK but you wouldn't have a problem on the other side of the axle.
If the 26.10 were ran, full flex wouldn't be a problem on the down ward tire as you would still have some shock left but on the up ward tire, it my not reach the full compression limit of the KK

Also keep in mind that I'm figuring that the shock will move its fill travel during flex. I could be full of crap about this whole subject since the shock my never use its full range of motion which would mean either shock would be fine

E2 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:11 am

Diggerfreek wrote:

Well today I installed my new rear bilstein shocks. I must say that I really like them. Since the whole install took like 10 minutes and I needed to test out my new rear bump stops, I had some time to go and play. I hate malls, so I decided to go school crawling :lol:

Why new shocks? What where wrong with the shocks that came with the 4" JBA lift? Did it give you more height?

If you can buy other shocks then one might want to buy the coils, arms and braklines for the 4" JBA costing just under $1000 and then get the tracker bar for some cost. I'm I missing anything?

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:34 am

Diggerfreek wrote:

E2 wrote:

Why new shocks? What where wrong with the shocks that came with the 4" JBA lift? Did it give you more height?

If you can buy other shocks then one might want to buy the coils, arms and braklines for the 4" JBA costing just under $1000 and then get the tracker bar for some cost. I'm I missing anything?

Nothing was wrong with them. I'm just a fan of gas charged shocks. Also I feel that the sky jacker ones are not the correct shocks to use for this set up because of how the guts work. If you had them on the vehicle that they were suppose to be on, they would work great. I did grow a little with the new shocks.

I came up with 900 bucks between the arms, coils, rear shocks and brake lines. Most of the cost if the lift is in the front components that are machined and the rear track bar that is hand fabricated

here E2, I didn't forget about you buddy

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