Long Travel BS Thread

Gonna be extremely low shock mounts to fit a 14” and still have full uptravel with the archive towers. I suggest calling Tim at DMZ to see what he thinks.

 

My buddies truck has SUA with extended/modified BAMF shock towers and 12" shocks. It works good. We have 14" shocks to put on when we do a bedcage and cut the BAMF off. Do it once, cry once.

 

I want to keep what I can, I'll call Tim at DMZ see what he says.

 

Make sure you have time, he’s a chatty feller

 

I went from a bedcage with 16"tripple bypasses, to bamf relocation in 2016 LOL was doing a cross country move and needed the bed space for all the shit I wasn't going to let the contracted military movers touch lol

 

you'll be good with the 14" and SUA, you need to re do your lower mounts, you or the installer NEED to cycle and strap/bump it correctly though and like 906taco and I said your shock mounts will be lower but it wont be that bad. Take a look at how low 4runner shocks are mounted off the axle.

 

This diagram won't work for Sua because the axle bumps out much higher than soa. Just in case anybody got the wrong idea

 

Similar but we're going to keep the bedcage more to the front of the bed and tie in a roll bar also. Should maximize bed space with everything forward of the wheel wells.

 

As the pic says "approximate depending on your setup" hes going to have to cycle, bump, and strap (cant stress that enough yotafab) for his truck if he goes with DMZ and the 14'' @YotaFAB its easy you just need a competent installer.

 

Well guys. It finally came to me this morning as to what my “wall” could be with the JD SUA.

At full bump I have roughly 1/2” of shaft showing. And I never used more than 1/4-1/2” of my bump stop that has 2” of travel.

so let’s do some math in the severity of axle wrap I was seeing.

It all makes total sense now. From clapping out driveshafts and carriers to why things cycled perfectly with the pack broken down.

 

Tim is cool as hell. Nice to run into people like that. Kinda few and far between

 

Im waiting for him to call me back. I have someone who will help me install. Im at the planning stages right now. I'm also torn between the Tundra rack or the JD slide rack.

 

Like others have already said Tims awesome, he'll fill your noggin with knowledge and get you squared away

12" or 14", idk?

 

I interested, but don't know if I follow... are you thinking that axle wrap at full bump is causing your shocks to bottom before the bump is bottoming? They cycle fine on the stands but in reality, you got other stuff at play?

 

100% what is happening. I’m going to get some actual numbers later today. Curious just how many degrees it boils down to. I was bottoming shocks damn near 2” before full bump because of the wrap. Will report back with numbers.

 

I got some other thing going on with my truck, but with similar symptoms.
12" raptor shocks with custom hoops and 2" bumps that won't bottom fully with some custom Alcan 5" lift SOA springs. I'm thinking my springs are binding and limiting my up travel though, as I did not have this issue when I was on a modified Deaver j66 pack; with about 3" less lift in the rear.
Although I could be having the same issue. Not something I had considered.

Edit: My rear end does not feel rough on "bottoming out" though. I just notice I cannot get the full travel out of the bumps even when airborn, whoops, whoops big enough to make the rear end buck.

 

I never considered it either. Only because I cycled everything and knew it all checked as good. But after considering certain things it kind of fell into place. Sure as shit. Set screw imprints in my lower rod end.

 

are your shackles long enough to allow inflection? an SOA setup would have to go negative to get all the way there

 

what pwt and axle are you running lol. thats a TON of wrap!

 

4.0 and a 6 speed with the factory rear. Absolutely an insane amount of wrap.