heh I used Sil-glyde too. I cut the inside lip of mine pretty aggressively and they are much easier to slip in and adjust. They still seated perfectly.Follow up: I measured my rear fender heights multiple times…2 of 3 times my right rear (where I put 2 blue rubber shox) was a bit high. 1 in 3 times things were equal or the left rear was a bit high.
So I pulled one of the blues off the right rear.
I think this will mitigate my lean in the long run. If not, I might add a red (softer than blue) back there too.
I also had a driver side lean in the front (persistently since I got the car, even after replacing accumulators).
I placed the blue up front on the left…then added a black to both the right and left.
The purpose for adding the blacks up there is that after adding sliders, front bull bar, rear bumper, Wilco swing away, roof basket, tools, etc, that the vehicle seems to rock a forwards and backwards a bit excessively while hitting bumps/dips. I also suspect that with hydraulic half of the ahc system picking up the slack for all that excess weight, there’s a reduction in damping (harsher ride) due to the system, in practice, constantly being at a higher pressure…akin to always being in high suspension mode.
I’m hoping that the rubber helper springs will give some boost to the coils, help with the rocking back and forth hitting dips, and potentially reduce the pressures of the ahc system and bring back a bit of damping.
So far (5 miles in or so) it does appear that adding the blue and blacks up front improved damping…and also reduced the forward to backward rocking in dips…but these things are sometimes subtle such that a placebo effect can cause one to think they solved the problem even if they didn’t.
My experience with adding and substracting the spring rubbers in the rear: it’s a 5 minute job.
Adding them in the front: lube them up with silicone grease and cut an angle on the rubber like Grinchy references in this thread…that helps get them started. Working them in there took me about 10-15 minutes per rubber. Now that I’ve done it a couple times, the fronts will probably go in in 5-10 minutes each.
Once they’re “threaded” onto the coils, you’ll note that the overlap themselves and need to be trimmed. This can be carefully done with a box cutter while they’re installed on the vehicle.
With the black coils, you’ll also need to drill zip tie ports in them as, unlike the blue ones, the manufacturer doesn’t appear to include them on the black ones.
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