El Taco Diablo... Mall Crawlin, now with LT for tall curbs

Hey bud. Can you PM me when you have a minute?

 

Ok... so, I just got off the phone with Fox tech support.

Again... the reason I'm proud to run Fox Shocks. I have always gotten great service and helpful information from them.

He spent at least 45 minutes with me going through every aspect of my issues. (And of course none of the issues are Fox's fault, but he ran down every avenue with me anyway)

These coilovers WILL work for my application. Yes, they are not what I would want if I am trying to get every inch of travel out of them that I can, but with 35s going to 37s shorter body shocks would have to be bumped where I am bumped anyway. Even tubbed the way I am, if I have any more up travel I will rub at full stuff and lock... with 35s... I'll have to tub further right now if I want to go up to 37s. (Essentially Solo's kit running a short shock body can fit 35, is recommended for 33, and will only work for 37s if you hack the shit out of everything)

Also, at the shock body length I am at right now, I hit my bump just at 1 inch from contacting the frame above the LCA bushings, so the body could only theoretically be 1 inch shorter anyway.

Now, how to make the coil perches work. He gave me the two part numbers for the 2 piece spring retainer that raises the bottom of the coil up 1.5 inch so I will not have an issue contacting the CV. He gave my info to a rep they deal with direct, for me to order.


This is making the best out of a bad situation that started by me letting a vendor talk me in to saving money by going with Performance Series shocks instead of Factory Race... which I am not really saving much money because I've had to spend $100 on resi elbows, and now I'm going to have to spend $140 on spring retainers.

 

So... I just talked to Bobby at Solo. (I've been having a bit of trouble getting ahold of him, turns out the phone lines to his industrial park have been down since last week).

Anyway... He says they install off the self Kings that are 16 compressed, 24 extended.

My Fox are
16.44 compressed
24.45 extended

He said what I have are pretty much the exact Fox version of the Kings they use.

Glad to get that outof the way... was starting to remind of of the time I relocated my rear shocks and the peanut gallery all wanted to say the shocks were wrong, too long, and I would have no up travel.




LMFAO...

 

Ur shocks are wrong and ur gonna have no uptravel

 

And there on upside down.

 

Seems the peanut gallery is always jealous of the size of my shaft

 

Pfft I'm happy with my 10"

 

I'm 4 inch longer, lol

 

She ain't gonna notice the difference anyway after 8"

 

I shoved all of my sh1t in, lol



Made a difference, haha

 

I bet you got extra coilovers or shocks in that big ass shop of yours

 

I wish

 

Nice, the peanut gallery doesn't understand the trail value of down travel. I'm often mind fudged by the foolishness where ppl think up travel is more important than actual usable down travel to keep traction... blahhhh

 

But those whoops yo'

 

hahaya 99.9% of ppl aren’t whooping shats!

 

Because they 3wheeling.... lol

Yep, agree. Rather have droop vs tuck.

 

Now that I'm not done with the current projects. Let's start looking towards the next project lol.

@Dan8906 when you did your second case, did you clock the transfer case? Did you do any research in to that?
@theesotericone you're doubled right? Have any advise on that?
How bout @foxrcing07?

Aside from the ramifications to the floor, (I don't care if I have to cut it) how hard would it be to flat bottom this thing?

 

Can't clock the tcase with the tg adapters. His setup is same as mine. Tg adapters with marlin gears.

For clocking u need the NWF setup

 

Not possible. TG doubler is not clockable so good luck on that. Inchworm is the only clockable adapter, but they are known to be a leaking POS.