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BIGNICK 09-06-2013 08:34 AM

3.5-5'' shocks for 3'' lift
 
Choose the tera 3'' lift. Can i put the ome 3.5-5'' shocks or 2-2.5'' ome shocks. Gonna rock 37's

Smashboogie 4x4 09-06-2013 09:13 AM


Originally Posted by BIGNICK (Post 3670136)
Choose the tera 3'' lift. Can i put the ome 3.5-5'' shocks or 2-2.5'' ome shocks. Gonna rock 37's

The loner shocks will give you more down travel but less compression. I would go with the longer shocks and just bump stop accordingly to prevent bottoming out the shock.

PM us if you want us to put together a package deal for the lift and shocks.

nthinuf 09-06-2013 11:20 AM

I went that route also. The fronts are great, but I didn't consider that the rear of the JK needs less lift than the front to sit level, so the rear shocks are fairly well compressed.

New bumpstops just arrived to take care of it, but I was also looking at the synergy relo brackets as well. One to move the bottom of the shock up out of harms way, and a corresponding bracket to move the top of the shock up. Need to do some measuring to see what will work out best, but was considering moving the top a bit further up than the bottom (or the bottom a bit less than the top, I guess) to help with the compression at normal ride height. We'll see.

Do not use the short ome shocks. Those are what I replaced. Wasn't happy with the length at all.

BIGNICK 09-06-2013 05:56 PM

Thanks guys

Smashboogie 4x4 09-07-2013 05:44 AM


Originally Posted by nthinuf (Post 3670259)
I went that route also. The fronts are great, but I didn't consider that the rear of the JK needs less lift than the front to sit level, so the rear shocks are fairly well compressed.

New bumpstops just arrived to take care of it, but I was also looking at the synergy relo brackets as well. One to move the bottom of the shock up out of harms way, and a corresponding bracket to move the top of the shock up. Need to do some measuring to see what will work out best, but was considering moving the top a bit further up than the bottom (or the bottom a bit less than the top, I guess) to help with the compression at normal ride height. We'll see.

Do not use the short ome shocks. Those are what I replaced. Wasn't happy with the length at all.

In my opinion it is best to move the bottom up as much as you can (get this out of the way so you don't get snagged on rocks). Most of the shock relocation brackets move the bottom up roughly 1.5-2" which is a huge difference. So with that being said you will definitely want to move the top up more than the bottom. You should be able to move the top about 3 inches and the bottom 2 inches which will help correct the issue you are having.


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