- Location
- Lake Elsinore
First I want to say thank you to JeeperJohn for the input on the gear patterns, I truly appreciate it and hopefully I can meet you in Big Bear in a couple weeks to shake your hand.
So my axle is all buttoned up and I've put a couple hundred miles on it so far, nice and quiet and all seems well there.
Pre swap the rig was on a D35 with a 3.5 RE lift with a full RE leaf pack, stock lower mounts and OME shocks and rode awesome.
I used a Ruff Stuff swap kit and welded the lower shock mounts on the axle tube a hair below the center line that is parallel with the ground. They inboard from the spring perches around 1.5 inches. The OME shocks are now about 1.25 inches from fully collapsed.
With my rig sitting on her own weight on flat ground the mount to mount distance is right about 14 inches with the new lower mounts.
I was hoping to get some Bilstein 5100's but the closest thing I can find that would work are 12 inches collapsed and 18.5 extended. I've looked at procomp and others and can't seem to find a shock that would work with how I set my lower shock mount. 2 inches of uptravel room doesn't seem like it will cut the mustard on the 5100. I found a Rancho shock that is 11.375 collapsed and 18.5 extended which still doesn't seem like it will work very well.
Am I missing something here? I wonder if I should have put the mounts in a different spot or got a different kind of mount all together.
Any input would be much appreciated.
So my axle is all buttoned up and I've put a couple hundred miles on it so far, nice and quiet and all seems well there.
Pre swap the rig was on a D35 with a 3.5 RE lift with a full RE leaf pack, stock lower mounts and OME shocks and rode awesome.
I used a Ruff Stuff swap kit and welded the lower shock mounts on the axle tube a hair below the center line that is parallel with the ground. They inboard from the spring perches around 1.5 inches. The OME shocks are now about 1.25 inches from fully collapsed.
With my rig sitting on her own weight on flat ground the mount to mount distance is right about 14 inches with the new lower mounts.
I was hoping to get some Bilstein 5100's but the closest thing I can find that would work are 12 inches collapsed and 18.5 extended. I've looked at procomp and others and can't seem to find a shock that would work with how I set my lower shock mount. 2 inches of uptravel room doesn't seem like it will cut the mustard on the 5100. I found a Rancho shock that is 11.375 collapsed and 18.5 extended which still doesn't seem like it will work very well.
Am I missing something here? I wonder if I should have put the mounts in a different spot or got a different kind of mount all together.
Any input would be much appreciated.