shock mounts

[cplux]

Looking at lowering my bottom mount on my hilux front shocks about 2" which will mean modifying steering stops, my question is this, is it important to have the shock mount eyes sitting in the same plane or can they be mounted perpendicular to each other without affecting travel/causing binding, we are talkng 9012's with eyes both ends.
cheers.

[beebee]

I'm curious - are you going to be using a snake rear shock mount style of system with the eye down behind the axle tube? Can you make it work with the steering? I would think that the bottom eye should have the bolt running north south with the top mount running either but prob east west. My reasoning is that when your front axle is fully articulated, thee angle between the shock and the housing are at their greatest and this changes when you cross up the other side. This is the connection that suffers the most movement. By mounting the eye north south, you are allowing the eye to slide over the bolt thus less binding. At the top if anything, you should have the eye running east west so that when your suspension cycles and the diff moves forward and back, this eye will take up some of play. I hope this is what you were after.

[cplux]

i will be trying to do something similar to the snake setup, was hoping east west on bottom would be ok (it would be much easier) the top is on ford mounts north south, sort of opposite to what you described. is going to be a biatch will need to mod steering stops big time.

[NICK]

what about moving your axle foward and fitting bigballs rear lower mounts?


NICK

[dave]

Why not leave the lower mount and run the shocks through the inner guard if you dont have the height under neith.

[cplux]

will be doing that too, but because of a certain supercharger height there is limited.
Nick, will be moving axle forward as well, was looking at something similar to the snake/bigballs mounts

[beebee]

What's the deal with DOT and cutting inner guards?

[NICK]

craig, what shocks will you be running? if you are going to raise the upper and lower the lower mount you will need some loooong shocks. i know that you already have the rs9000 and ford towers, you dont find that allows enough travel?

NICK

[cplux]

9012's at present 99036's when they turn up, along with a few other goodies, and when fund permit the rest.

I think you can cut inners as long as they are covered (in nsw anyway)