Long Travel BS Thread

Thanks for the reply, Tim basically said doubles would work but triples would tune better. Im sick of bottoming out my existing rear set up so as soon as the DMZ kit is in i'm ready to go. Last run I did felt like the rear rode on the bumps the entire time! But your right, as nice as the cool factor might be its all useless if its sitting in my driveway! Dirt = win!

 

The tunabilty of the tubes only goes so far, you need to get your shimm stacks right first. Im running the DMZ kit, I rode in and watched trucks similar to mine (extra cab tacos, & rangers) that had similar shock setups and just went from there. Asked what they were running took notes and then taylored it to my liking. Its a lot easier than it sounds.

 

wtf bro? I thought I could just bolt on and head to Baja?

 

Secondary smoothies up front and smoothies out rear!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D2dlOo3Dzg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjA2ILmpuzo

 

thats what I did when i first got my rear setup lmao!!! My shocks had a fucking .20+ stack with each shimm doubled up and it barley stroked half the shock over big hits lmao!

 

looks tits man I thought about running smoothies up front for some extra dampening. now youre making me want to even more!

 

Seriously. The bypasses make such a huge difference.


Check 1:31 - 1:40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9swtNkirCA&feature=player_embedded

 

eeek some of those trucks look like the spring rates are a little off? Was that your truck mobbin through there like nothing at about 1:40

 

Yes sir! Thats before I tuned the front bypasses.

 

Oh yeah? Here my SOA expo spring setup in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hI7sXzDlYQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

repost??

http://vimeo.com/59204253

 

rofl!!! throwback right here me and my buddy nick in the ranger, and Alex (Battlescars)in his taquito.

http://vimeo.com/3136032

 

hahahha! Damn throwback for sure. I ALWAYS see rangers with LT front and Spring over with a bypass. Why are they never spring under?! lol

 

Shock angle question for you guys...

On a double cab short bed, if I mount the shock within 2'' of the front of the bed and have my shock mounts on the front side of the axle, how much shock angle am I going to be looking at and what sort of affect on performance are we talking?

 

More importantly make sure it cycles properly. As mentioned above when they were talking about links you can make it up with valving and tuning

 

The way the mounts are set up off the side of the frame they don't need the springs to go under the axle. The mounts don't hang below the side of the frame.

I doubt you will have any performance issues to worry about. People like to over complicate shock angle theories. Set it up to where it cycles as much of the shock as possible for the given wheel travel and you will be fine

 

bump steer repost

 

20" of travel with a 16" shock and this is the angle at bump.


16" of travel with a 14" shock and this is the angle at bump

 

get the mounts off the axle where you want them and then bolt the shock to them, dropp the suspension out and extended the shock. Get a sharpie and stick it through the upper shock eye, trace the arc on something, a piece of ply wood or cardboard thats attached to the frame. After that fully compress the suspension, and leave about a 1/2" of shockshaft showing. Now trace that arc on the wood/cardboard sheet. The point at which the arcs intersect is where you want to mount your shock.

I did mine with a long piece of flat stock. Heres a pic as I was finding the angle, suspension fully bumped out trace the arc, fully dropped out trace the arc and i ended up there .