I’m hoping to do some testing in the next couple weeks on how much down travel I can get! I need to make a spacer for the shock and bother my friend with a fork lift. Gwnugget claimed 2” more with the RAM so I’m curious if I can get that myself!I agree with all of this and have spent a lot of time articulating the suspension. With the spring in and out, mostly with the spring out and shocks on. I would even let the suspension drop out with the 4" lift shock and the 6" lift shock, them put a 4x4 in one side were the spring should be and force the other side up to simulate articulation.
what I can say for sure is the arm and bushing are the biggest limitation in the 80s suspension.
With stock arms moved forward 11/8" there was no way I could get the suspension to articulation any near the travel of the 6" lift shock the 4x4 block would spit out with incredible force, when I strapped it in place it bent the bump stop that's in the spring it was the same with the 4" lift shock just not as severe.
I think that the RAM mount are one of the best way to correct caster in low lifts 2"s if you not going for extreme rock crawling, and in theory they should help down travel, but IMHO there no way your going to put a 2" drop bracket at the rear of the arm and achieve a additional 2" of travel at the axle, just not going to happen.
That being said it would be interesting to get two rigs with the same spring/ shock set. one with the drop brackets one with out and see what the real world improvement in down travel are.
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