Old Man Emu Dakar Question

I'm picking up a used pair of OME Dakar EL095r medium duty with an extra leaf added to make them equal to the heavy duty.

My questions:
If I want to run a ubolt flip kit, what length ubolts will I need. Will 8.75 be long enough? Are longer bumpstops needed?

Can I get away with no extended brake lines and my 5100's in the rear for right now until I upgrade?

Also, Can I reuse my stock factory bolts with these springs and the OME bushings?

Thanks all.

 

8.75" should work. I believe factory is 6.5" so those will handle 2.25" taller leaf packs which the dakars are less than. You could always go longer too... With the bolts flipped you don't really need to worry about them being too long.

Don't need taller bumps unless you are running taller shocks. But there are benefits to taller bumps in some applications.

You shouldn't need longer brake lines with dakars unless you modify the rear shackle setup and get longer shocks.

Yes, you can reuse the stock bolts.

 

Thank you for the info!
I think for simplicity I'll end up skipping the ubolt flip kit and just get longer regular ubolts and just get the 5125 shocks.

 

Another thing to taken into account is the thicker leaf pack (like 8 or 9 leafs in the dakar pack total?) also spaces the lower shock mounts down, so even if the shocks are longer, bump spacers are most likely not needed as the pack itself is ~2" thicker, thus able to run a 2" or so longer compressed length shock.