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Like @nwfl4runner , I very much doubt it's your CVs, especially for stock stroke.
What's more likely IMO is the steering stops. These are metal on metal stops, and definitely can clank with steering lock and suspension articulating.
Keep the sensor lift. Go AHC long travel.
if you had zip ties across the coil wrap they would already have been broken at extension. I doubt it's the spring rubbers at extension. that's the opposite of a coil bind situation.
Sweet. If you were able to make a similar mount for the front LCA, which spaced up the shock eyelet by ~25mm, I think it would be WAY easier to install than the shock-top spacers/studs that everyone seems to be using.
Am I missing something here that makes a shock-top spacer better than an LCA/bottom-eyelet spacer? Is it preload that you are looking for? The bottom end would be easier to install, requiring zero modification of the AHC fluid line, studs, etc. If people need to be able to hold more load, then I guess compressing the springs is necessary, but if not a sensor lift and bottom end spacer might do the trick.
Here's a photo of the 100 series solution from Japan 4x4...
A similar solution could fit into the "pocket" of the 200 series LCA and extend the mounting point upwards by ~25mm, achieving the same thing as @turbo8 has done at the rear.
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Someone school me here
It worked well on the 100 series with the Japan 4x4 spacers without welding required (drilling required, however in the 100 series). The nice part is it should be fairly cheap to fabricate, easy to install, and total reversible. I could envision a fairly simple billet aluminum or steel design working. The key would be making a very tight fit, and fastening it into the shock "pocket" of the LCA. A strong secondary fastener would be ideal to prevent any play. Certainly welding would be another option here, but less easily reversed in the event that someone wants to go back to stock.
It worked well on the 100 series with the Japan 4x4 spacers without welding required (drilling required, however in the 100 series). The nice part is it should be fairly cheap to fabricate, easy to install, and total reversible. I could envision a fairly simple billet aluminum or steel design working. The key would be making a very tight fit, and fastening it into the shock "pocket" of the LCA. A strong secondary fastener would be idea to prevent any play. Certainly welding would be another option here, but less easily reversed in the event that someone wants to go back to stock.
There are definitely a few ways to skin this cat, however: The top spacing, a "spacer" on the bottom, or possibly LX600 shock replacement...still waiting on a guinea-pig/hero for that last one!
something like this could be fabricated to fit without calling in the rocket-scientists.
Got a chance to stretch her legs on some deep moguls. Really happy with the all around added travel.
Some observations on the rear suspension
- Satisfied that it's still keeping all the up-travel
- With the added down-travel, in an articulated situation with one side down and the other side up, it adds to the down and up travel of each side
- This also seems to push the stuffed tire further rearward, enough that it's catching things that it did not previously. Perhaps harder to imagine, but this is due to the asymmetric angles of the lower rear trailer arms. The drooped arm is at a steeper angle pulling the axle forward. The stuffed side is straighter pushing it rearward. The added travel compounding the shift.
In this case, 35s are scrubbing on the passenger mud flap screw, right under the AHC resevoir cover, where it didn't before. Hence the loud clicking noise in the above video. Should be easy enough to push back just a tad.
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