Lower your psi you can easily run 25 psi on a light rig.

 

Heavy E rated tires are your issue not the shocks. Unless you are going to go with some custom valved adjustable shocks from like King or Fox I would say you are wasting your time and money swapping off the shelf generic shocks.

 

^^ agreed

 

Not true. You run your pressure that will give you a flat foot print at operating temp. It isn't the size of the tire as it is the manufacturer and rim width. If you have a 12.5 wide tire but aired up and driven its contact patch is 3 inches wide you have too much air.

 

Between the money back guarantee and their current rebate I decided to try them. Unbelievable difference in their ride quality. And the nice thing is if I load up the Jeep for a trip I just have to dial it up some to compensate for the added weight.

 

My rig is about as light as they come if you've seen pictures: no bumpers and really no heavy steel parts added. No spare. She's light. I've ran it down to 23 psi on the road, and although it softens the ride a bit, it doesn't make that much of a difference. I can really tell when they're aired down that low due to the squishy handling on the highway.

I have the early linear (or the dual rate, but not progressive) coil springs from RK. I'm not sure if the progressives would help—I thought they just allowed you to drop more without unseating your coil.

I went ahead and ordered the RS9000's, so we'll see how it goes. At this point, anything softer than the OME will be welcome.

I'll check back in after I've had a few days on them to update.

Thanks for the help.

 

Subscribed to see your review. I have a light 2 door with OME coils and shocks. While I don't mind the ride I would always like a more smoother/softer ride.

 

Just checking back in... the Ranchos are much softer than the OMEs I had on before. I have the fronts at setting #1 and the rears at setting #3. The rear seems to like it a touch above the lightest setting to keep body roll to a minimum—I'm guessing the adjustment is only touching the compression settings and not the rebound, but the front doesn't dive as much under hard braking with the rears set to #3 instead of #1 to match the front.

Either way, it was about a 20–30% change in the right direction and made the ride more comfortable over the horrible county roads we have here. I would say more expensive shocks will control all the unsprung weight of 37" tires much better, but for the price I'm happy.