More suspension travel

[SmokingRocks]

Thought maybe you guys would want a third wheel

 

[Dragos80]

Where is the face palm emoji???????????

 

[slow95z]

well no matter the lift you go with might i suggest a set of super swamper thornbirds to round out your rig and get you where you need to go.

 

[danthman114]

if you want a 6", go to the slee website and get their phone number and call them. tell them what you want and the will make a parts list of everything you will need and give you price. its expensive, just a heads up...

 

[inkpot]

if you want a 6", go to the slee website and get their phone number and call them. tell them what you want and the will make a parts list of everything you will need and give you price. its expensive, just a heads up...

I read the OP's first post to mean that he wants to relocation the upper spring buckets higher in the chassis so he can run 6" lift springs WITHOUT raising the ride height of the vehicle. I don't think Christo has a kit for that?

 

[Qball]

I read the OP's first post to mean that he wants to relocation the upper spring buckets higher in the chassis so he can run 6" lift springs WITHOUT raising the ride height of the vehicle. I don't think Christo has a kit for that?

Why would anyone do that? You can’t use the springs so why bother?

 

[danthman114]

I read the OP's first post to mean that he wants to relocation the upper spring buckets higher in the chassis so he can run 6" lift springs WITHOUT raising the ride height of the vehicle. I don't think Christo has a kit for that?

Yeah I got that. I don't think that he really thought about the can of worms he would open up. The upward movement would be limited to exactly what it is stock. Bumpstops would get a workout for sure and that would leave all that extra upward travel doing nothing at all.

 

[inkpot]

Maybe he wants to run Volvo Portal axles upside down?

 

[cybrstar]

I actually think raising the spring buckets on the rear of the axle maybe a good idea. Last time through the con my doestech rear shocks (12 incher’s with rubber shaft bumpstops) and the rear spring came loose all the time . I ended up zip tieing the bottoms into place and it did a hell of a job keeping them in place the rest of the trip because they popped out of the bucket so much. This was dangerous because the spring would rub on everything around the area when it free’ed.
At that time I was running the j’s which are one of the longest OME spring out there.

After the trip I add a 30mm spacer to accommodate this issue and wanted to go higher anyways. So next time out I’ll see if the springs pop out again.

I may add it to the long list of things to do but for now it’s more work than necessary. So longer springs, spacer and zip ties will do for now.

 

[maxamillion2345]

Captured coils?

 

[Jgunner]

For coil keepers, the ford guys (twin eye beam, twin traction beam) use j hooks. Ive seen tge sold at off road shops.