12" short body. Mike has 14" and it requires an exponential amount of work, but you know Mike's truck! It must conquer and devestate all!!
Rear Lower mount:
- heim is too small to fit over the OEM (factory) mount.
- If you push out the heim and use a bushing over the OEM mount, the bushing will be too thin and disintegrate.
- If you use a metal spacer in lieu of poly, you will have some shock binding and possibly that will damage or stress the shock and/or mount
mounting variations-
- the mount we came up with (which I think is uber cool
) allows for no shock binding, bushing or heim mount (meaning we could have left a heim in there). And, if we carry 1 front/ 1 rear old shock,
stock OME shock can be mounted back in a trail emergency
- you can cut off the OEM lower mount post and basically weld an adapter there and slide a bolt thru (like the upper adapter). That is another option. this would allow you to drop the mount location down a few inches if you have a longer shock (LandcruiserPhil did this)
*of note- Rick had the foresight to engineer it w/ all the same size bolts in mind. This way, carrying trail spares and fixes are minimal and easy. I really think it is a brilliant, simple tip.
-The real difficulty is at the top side w/ hose clearance. So pay careful attention to it and if you come up w/ more ideas there, I think we would really love to hear them. thanks!