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long travel shocks what to get

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:37 am
by lux000
Hi there all,

I currently have rancho 999036xls in the front of my hilux with closed length of 537mm and open 918mm and they are limiting flex.

What are my options for a longer stoke shock ?

I dont mind modifying my towers to fit them in as they are far from standard now.

Gav.

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:20 am
by Gwagensteve
Almost nothing - you have 15" now and even the fox/king shocks top out at 16" from memory, so that's not going to help.

I'd be looking at moving the shocks to get them in a position where they don't have to move as far to get the same travel. If your bottom mount is stock 'lux, it's in about the worst place for travel - right out at the end of the axle and angled slightly in - when articulating, the shocks actually have to move further than the axle at the bumpstops, so you'll get a lot more out of your shocks if you can move the bottom mounts inboard a bit.

Steve.

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:56 am
by lux000
I cant really move the mounts in because the size of shock canister, i thought of trying that though.

Surely there has to be bigger shocks out there somewhere.

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:14 am
by 1MadEngineer
we run 16" SAW air shocks, and get full travel out of them. new truck will run 18" FOA's

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