Fox Mid-Travel Questions

Hi Guys,

So I'm seriously looking at Fox Midtravel coilovers and I have a few questions.

First of all. How will they change the driving characteristics on-road. In other words when I go around a corner, will the truck lean more with the Fox suspension, or stay more level with the Fox suspension. I would prefer that it stay more level, as you would want a sports car to in turns.

Second - How much will front fox suspension do if I don't immediately modify the rear suspension. I don't plan on jumping the truck ever, but I'd like to be able to tear through the desert pretty quickly.

Thirdly - Would I need flared fenders right away? I have 265/70/r17's and don't plan on slamming down on the suspension and digging the wheels up into the fenders.

Fourth - I assume I would need new UCA's when the shocks were installed?

Fifth - while off road tearing through the desert how important is a pre-runner bumper actually? If I were to hit a whoop pretty hard do you actually think it would take out the stock bumper?


So to sum it all up - I really want FOX suspension and to be able to tear through the desert, but I don't want to change body panels unless I have to, and I don't want the truck to feel like a bucket of water going around turns. I also probably won't have the money to put coilovers on the back initially, and would want to be able to start having fun in the desert before I upgrade the back.


Thank you so much,

Jack

 

Thank you very much!

So in the back I don't need coil-overs? Just shocks and an upgraded leaf pack? Should I put the fox shocks in the back? Or would bilsteins be enough in the rear?

Just to wonder?? Could I put the shocks from the front of the truck on the rear?

I would like to go 50-60mph in the desert?

I want a full mid travel set up so much but I want to do it right and I don't want to beat up my truck.

 

the rear suspensions of our trucks are leaf/shock, the leafs hold the truck up/are the flexing component while the shocks dampen the bounce of the leafs

 

I don't want to seem stupid, I thought I knew a lot about this.

Coil-overs are just shocks with coils around them.

So I would have fox 2.0 remote resi shocks in the front with the coils around them and I would just have the fox 2.0 remote resi shocks in the rear with the leaf pack.

 

My shopping cart looks pretty much same as yours DoorDing.

 

I wont have that problem. I'm just gonna go with the Icon mini pack in the rear since the only thing I ever have in the back of my truck is 2 dogs. Plus no deserts here to go bombing through so I dont need straps or resi. I just like the idea of having adjustibilty, rebuildability and of course more travel. Thats why I decided on going with Fox COs instead of the OME kit. After shipping to hawaii and adding UCAs, The DSM Fox kit is about the same as the OME kit.
I just gotta recover from this back surgery and go back to work before I can order the kit.