In the middle of a rear shock install need some help

I bought some king remote reservoir extended travel rear shocks the reservoir is mounted I mounted the top bolt and I'm having a hell of a time compressing the bottom of the shock to get it into the bottom bracket. any suggestions??

 

few suggestions: hit the gym, get a friend who hits the gym, use a jack, use a crow bar

 

Floor jack and small pry bar. They can be hard to compress sometimes.

 

full droop should be pretty close to max extension of the shock.

Hell its probably further than the lenght of the shock. Should be able to do full droop, bolt the top in, then jack the axle up to meet the shock.

 

though extended travel....

OP do you have compressed and collapsed lengths on the shocks? cus you might be fully collapsing the shocks before hitting your bump... which is BAD

 

Screenshot_2015-02-24-17-00-51 by flex0168, on Flickr

Screenshot_2015-02-24-17-00-59 by flex0168, on Flickr

 

Finally got it in used a jack and a hammer what a pain in the ass. I'm not exaclty sure on all the specs of the shocks I ordered a package from DSM for front and rear both front and back are ext travel

 

from the looks your shocks will collapse before you hit bumps.

 

Well that was taken when I still had the rear end jacked up I measured the shocks travel once the tire was on and I have 5 and a quarter inches of travel till it would be bottomed out. And I measured the length before I put it in and it was 8in

 

SO that's unloaded before I pushed it up to the bracket

20150224_155012 by flex0168, on Flickr

 

What are you using as your lift point?