Long Travel BS Thread

Why? Because they will be too stiff, especially fox with no free bleed screws in the piston.
And when you do finally valve them light enough, with flutter spaced incomplete .008 shims stacks, for a nice smooth soft ride over the smaller/medium stuff, you will have no bottoming/bump stage when you're mega hucking and mobbing through the big stuff.

Run bypasses.
I'm not claiming to be some expert, just went through this exact scenario on my last build.
When I bought my smoothies from Kartek, 2 of their guys, Kurt (who raced a single cab 1st gen taco) and Baja Mike both told me the same thing but I was like, nah I'm gonna set it up rad and it will be fine, guess who was right back there buying bypass shocks from them a little down the road?

 

New bypass shocks $500+ each, Set of Smoothies, $200+ each. thats a HUGE difference.

I will be running 10 inch fox 2.0 RR smoothies with a relocated under bed bar and switching to 2.5 10 inch Bypass once I find them used.

 

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I would save a little extra and just get Bypasses too. The performance difference is incredible.

 

2.0's angled under the bed for a mid travel build is a whole different deal and can be just fine for mild off road use.
I'm talking about 16 or 18 shocks through the bed at a 1:1 (ish) shock to wheel travel ratio and wanting to drive fast through the desert.

LT is not cheap, bypasses will make the rear handle well. LT trucks that handle well are fun to drive. Run what you guys want, it's just a suggestion from my personal experience with smoothies versus bypass shocks.

 

Down south quoted me 750 out the door fora set remote resi kings.

 

Anyone help me out please. I'm looking for the thread that the person has the mini BR towers installed for their rear shocks, please post a link. Thanks

Nvm found it

 

Thems is fightin werds, I'll see you in Glami.... oh yeah your broken

 

Lol I know. Dont forget stock fenders

 

Smoothies did fine for myself, you can't expect too much out of leaf springs. Took a little bit of valving to make sure I got the right set up but if you're on a budget and not doing 60+ mph through big whoops then smoothies work just fine.

 

Wheels

 

Agreed a well valved smooth body can work damn near as well as a bypass, and honestly most people who have bypasses don't know how to tune them correctly so they don't get the use out of them

 

who has the engage bed saver cage? how hard would it be to weld in

 

The same as welding any other tubing

 

haha i wish i had the capability of welding, but you have to lift the bed off right?

 

Aaron has it...

 

I think his is different because he's a long bed

 

Haven't seen it installed so I don't know. If you lived closer I'd throw it together for you

 

If u can remove your bedsides without pulling your bed then u will not need to remove your bed completely. U will have to cut holes in the bed to install and lift the bed up to be able to weld the support legs to the frame.