*RIP* Bijan's #EXPOASF Long Travel Build

Awesome! I love the ride, it’s got me wanting to try a little more serious off-roading. It’s also got me realizing how much the rear is lacking though

 

It's a never ending spending hole, lol! Glad that the front feels better though.

For the rear just upgrade the leafs to deavers and maybe some 12" kings (IMO the way to go) and you'll be golden!

Or just link it.

 

Yea I’ve been looking at shock relocation kits, what do you have in the back? At the rate your going I’m waiting to see you link it go for it

 

Which one are your leaning towards? Not yet installed but I have the bamf kit an HD hanger with king 12in 2.0 smoothies awaiting install. There’s another member down in my area who I copied that from flex’s dang good for having HD dakars.
I believe with a archive garage you can fit a 14in.

 

I’ve been looking at archives relocation and hammer hangers their kit will allow a 14, idk either way is a lot of money and work. I’m trying to research and check what everyone else is running and what works

 

It is for sure I found a killer deal on the shocks. Only reason I went with bamf was for the outstanding customer service the have provided to the TW community.

 

The Archive kit will fit a 14" shock but most people don't remotely cycle that much. You have to have a very arched leaf pack and hangers. The Archive hangers are great and I'm sure the BAMF will allow my cycling as well but I've never seen or worked with the BAMF.

 

The BAMF relocation kits is great as well and very simplistic, however you're limited to a 2.0" shock. People have fit a 2.5" but from my understanding it takes a lot of work and at that point, just go with the Archive.

A 2.0 with resi will work very well for most applications. The 2.5" is nice if you do some higher speed driving or have a tendency to send the truck being they have additional dampening control and obviously more oil capacity.

 

Shane’s 100% right - My buddy with the BAMF relocation can’t fit 2.5’s, but with the archive kit you can.

 

Great info y’all are putting out I’ve learned so much about LT from your build thread Bijan that I was always curious about.
I’d like to have 2.5s but stuck I got 2.0 non resi basic bisch cause the price way to good to pass up.

 

Idk your driving styles or terrain but if you don't do a lot of high speed open driving over rough terrain then a 2.0 will work well. I'd definitely get a resi though. What shocks did you get?

Bijan's running a 2.0x12" in the rear because at the time he was not planning on trying to do race car stuff and had a license plate that said "EXPO AF." There was really no need to go bigger. Now he wants to do all of the race car stuff but the license plate still remains.

 

Well where I’m at is mostly rocks an rutted trails. I don’t plan do any high speed stuff went with king 2.0s non resi out back with the relocate kit and hanger to be installed.
Current setup this week is icons 2.5 w/resi up front an King 2.5s w/resi out back. Gonna try an sell this setup to get matching Kings upfront....again

 

King makes a 2.0 w/o resi that's not a coil over?

 

Don’t believe so, meant I want matching king coilovers with resi up front.
The rear 2.0s don’t have the resi found a killer eBay deal on these.

 

wow i’ve never seen them w/out resi’s

 

Probably why they were so cheap. The will work fine for my use.

 

Yeah they’ll be great. I had Bilstein B110’s forever and they were just fine but on the long distance dirt trails they got hot and faded. But the slow stuff, just fine!

How much did u get them for (;

 

In this pic you can see the new gap between CV boot and shock tab - No binding at all even at full droop. Pretty clean setup now. All thats left is to grease the zerk fittings today

 

Nor have I

Have a part #? I'm curious

 

Sweet!!
I paid $375 shipped.