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  1. Aug 4, 2016 at 4:59 AM
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    Awesome, I am looking to go up to 14"
     
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    Haha. Me too. I would like to stay out of the bed tho.
     
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    I plan on extending my BAMF towers up a little into the bed just through the wheel wells
     
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  4. Aug 10, 2016 at 8:10 AM
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    Wow, looks awesome dude! Super jelly of those air bumps! How much space at ride height do you have before contact?
     
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  5. Aug 10, 2016 at 8:23 AM
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    Thanks man. I have about 4" before contact. I have about 5 1/4" of up on the shock. I had to make a adjustable bump pad cuz I would bottom out the shock flexing before bump would touch.
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  6. Aug 10, 2016 at 8:25 AM
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    Looks good. So 4" Fully bumped so you have 2" of untouched uptravel before the air bumps start working?
     
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  7. Aug 10, 2016 at 8:30 AM
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    4"untouched, then 2" of bump stop shaft. I'm left with about 3/4-1" of shock left when fully stopped. I need to adjust psi on bump cuz I feel it contact when going fast over speed humps.
     
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  8. Aug 10, 2016 at 8:32 AM
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    Oh damn... Lots more uptravel than me :jellydance:
    I'm unsure of what to do at this point thats easiest. Add to my leaf pack or get a longer shackle.. I really don't want to cut and move my rear shackle mount.
     
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  9. Aug 10, 2016 at 8:36 AM
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    Yeah, before I did the swap, I had no up travel with the shock relocation. So, I basically set the height based on having more up travel. I set mine at 6" of up, knowing it would settle, which it did. Ass sits a lil high, but I'm fine with it.
     
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  10. Oct 12, 2016 at 11:49 PM
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    So, in order to get that kind of up travel you had to move the rear shackle mount?
     
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  11. Oct 13, 2016 at 6:23 AM
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    Placement of the rear shackle mount sets your lift height. The further back you set the mount, the more lift.
     
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    Xpost from the build thread

    Put some work in with @Timbo89 today at Kitchen f
    Put some work in with @Timbo89 today at Kitchen fab! We cut the BAMF upper shock towers off in the rear and Tim welded up some Ford Shock Towers in order to fit 14" stroke bilstein 5125s. Came out great! Squeaky now has 9" of droop and 5" of compression in the rear.







    ab! We cut the BAMF upper shock towers off in the rear and Tim welded up some Ford Shock Towers in order to fit 14" stroke bilstein 5125s. Came out great! Squeaky now has 9" of droop and 5" of compression in the rear.






     
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    This is great! I suspected you could fit a 14", but I'm glad someone finally did it. Do you have any more info on that Ford shock tower?
     
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    Awesome dude. I wish I had 5" of compression lol
     
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