Rear shock guards/skids/protectors

[Cola]

Any updates on these?

Rear Shock Guards 100 Series

Made from 3/16" HSLA steel CNC cut and bent for accuracy Stop rock and road debris from pitting your shock piston rods. With a recessed design, it protects the shock bolt as well. This acts as a guard and a skid at the same time. Bolt up takes approximately 20 minutes. No drilling or cutting...

www.trail-tailor.com

 

[molonlabemike]

Rear Shock Guards 100 Series

Made from 3/16" HSLA steel CNC cut and bent for accuracy Stop rock and road debris from pitting your shock piston rods. With a recessed design, it protects the shock bolt as well. This acts as a guard and a skid at the same time. Bolt up takes approximately 20 minutes. No drilling or cutting...

www.trail-tailor.com

Thank you! On my list

 

[dogdaysindurham]

Jason @TRAIL TAILOR makes a great shock guard and came up with a solid mounting method so these can’t rotate on the shock like some other designs.

 

[trdcorolla]

Any updates on these?

Rear Shock Guards 100 Series

Made from 3/16" HSLA steel CNC cut and bent for accuracy Stop rock and road debris from pitting your shock piston rods. With a recessed design, it protects the shock bolt as well. This acts as a guard and a skid at the same time. Bolt up takes approximately 20 minutes. No drilling or cutting...

www.trail-tailor.com

You need to be running extended links to install this.

 

[DMD08]

I run these with OEM 18's. Does anyone run them with OEM or aftermarket 16's? I'd like to go to a 16" wheel but it doesnt look like there would be enough clearance without using wheel spacers with an OEM wheel or going aftermarket with more offset.

 

[Kabanstva]

I run these with OEM 18's. Does anyone run them with OEM or aftermarket 16's? I'd like to go to a 16" wheel but it doesnt look like there would be enough clearance without using wheel spacers with an OEM wheel or going aftermarket with more offset.

Jason redesigned these to solve that problem. Current design has plenty of room left before touching the wheel/tire. I got the OEM 16s on a 33” tire and even aired down to 15psi, the tire doesn’t touch at all.

First batch of protectors still clears the 16” wheels as long as you shave off some of the metal on the protector, but when you air down a lot it starts to make contact with the tire.

 

[DMD08]

I see some grinding and welding in my future.

 

[OwnerCS]

Jason @TRAIL TAILOR makes a great shock guard and came up with a solid mounting method so these can’t rotate on the shock like some other designs.
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Thanks for sharing the pictures. I have a set that I've been sitting on for at least a year. I couldn't figure out how to mount them.

My rear shocks have top-mounted pistons and rubber boots to cover the shaft at the bottom. I don't really need shock protection that I can see.

Thie only problem that I'm having at the moment is the shock washer and bolt are taking a beating when they rub up against rocks.

 

[Joe422]

I have TT shock skids and they fit fine, and clear sway bar too (extended links). Currently swapped shocks from IM nitros to the fatter body FCP, which also fits fine With the shock skid.

if i could have done anything different, i would have had them Powdercoated first.
i painted them with POR15, but my last outing beat it up.

Another new option you may have are from ProSpeed (Brian)… he‘s got some cool stuff up his sleeve.

 

[OwnerCS]

I have TT shock skids and they fit fine, and clear sway bar too (extended links). Currently swapped shocks from IM nitros to the fatter body FCP, which also fits fine With the shock skid.

if i could have done anything different, i would have had them Powdercoated first.
i painted them with POR15, but my last outing beat it up.

Another new option you may have are from ProSpeed (Brian)… he‘s got some cool stuff up his sleeve.

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What type of bolts did you use to mount the shock protectors? I would like to install the protectors this weekend. I'm clueless about the side bolts that I need to install.

 

[Joe422]

What type of bolts did you use to mount the shock protectors? I would like to install the protectors this weekend. I'm clueless about the side bolts that I need to install.

The side bolts came with the shock skids... from TT.
The main bolt is just the OE shock bolt on the bottom.

 

[OwnerCS]

The side bolts came with the shock skids... from TT.
The main bolt is just the OE shock bolt on the bottom.

Thank you!

 

[Hugh Heifer]

Here is a quick install of the TT guards. Pretty much a 2 banana job since you need to drill a couple holes.

This is what you get:
A pair of the guards in raw. (I painted mine with some Rustoleum.)

Hardware (2 bolts, 2 nuts, 4 washers and, thoughtfully, a drill bit)

Because you will need to drill a hole on the inside of the lower shock mount, start by removing the lower bolts in both sway bar links (14mm) and swing the bar down out of the way.

Then remove the lower shock bolt (17mm). You do not need to remove the shock.
Put the correct guard in place. Either will fit over the lower mount but they are left and right so be sure to pick the correct one before drilling.

Now put you lower shock bolt back in to hold the guard in its proper location.

I dimpled the inside of the shock mount and drilled a pilot hole then drilled the larger hole for the supplied bolt. There is already a hole on the outside of the mount and it aligns with the guard.

Install the bolt with a supplied washer under the head and one under the nylon lock nut. Tighten (⁵/8 or 16mm).

Repeat on the other side.

Put your sway bar hardware back in. Anti seize is a good idea.

That's it. Pretty easy. I took the wheel off one side but did the other with the wheel on.

We will see how they hold up at GSMTR.

 

[Octous]

Jason redesigned these to solve that problem. Current design has plenty of room left before touching the wheel/tire. I got the OEM 16s on a 33” tire and even aired down to 15psi, the tire doesn’t touch at all.

First batch of protectors still clears the 16” wheels as long as you shave off some of the metal on the protector, but when you air down a lot it starts to make contact with the tire.

First of all want to state that I run a bunch of Trail Tailor stuff and love it all. Creeper skid plate, sway bar link extensions, trailing arm skid and also these shock skids. I have OEM 16" wheels with 285/75r16 BFG KO2s. I discovered that when doing hard wheeling at 16 psi -- Rubicon stuff and other -- under extreme articulation and bumping a rock the rear tires will bag out and the inner side wall will contact the shock guards resulting in inner sidewall cuts. Inside clamp on balancing weights also interfere with the shock skids.

I'm fixing both of these issue by going to 18" OEM rims.

Keep up the good work Trail Tailor!

 

[Kabanstva]

First of all want to state that I run a bunch of Trail Tailor stuff and love it all. Creeper skid plate, sway bar link extensions, trailing arm skid and also these shock skids. I have OEM 16" wheels with 285/75r16 BFG KO2s. I discovered that when doing hard wheeling at 16 psi -- Rubicon stuff and other -- under extreme articulation and bumping a rock the rear tires will bag out and the inner side wall will contact the shock guards resulting in inner sidewall cuts. Inside clamp on balancing weights also interfere with the shock skids.

I'm fixing both of these issue by going to 18" OEM rims.

Keep up the good work Trail Tailor!

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YUP. I ran into this same issue pretty much as soon as I installed these and tested it out for contact on some diagonal type stuff on local trails. My solution was just running the Slee 1.25" (I believe) spacers since I didn't want to reinstall my oem 18" wheels.

 

[Hugh Heifer]

First of all want to state that I run a bunch of Trail Tailor stuff and love it all. Creeper skid plate, sway bar link extensions, trailing arm skid and also these shock skids. I have OEM 16" wheels with 285/75r16 BFG KO2s. I discovered that when doing hard wheeling at 16 psi -- Rubicon stuff and other -- under extreme articulation and bumping a rock the rear tires will bag out and the inner side wall will contact the shock guards resulting in inner sidewall cuts. Inside clamp on balancing weights also interfere with the shock skids.

I'm fixing both of these issue by going to 18" OEM rims.

Keep up the good work Trail Tailor!

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You think it hit the bolt?