Up travel v Droop

[Thol]

Ride is good especially on high speed ruts however I did only do limited amount of travel before changing. I changed before doing a trip through North WA and carrying reasonable amount of camp gear. Still happy. I haven't done any geometry brackets and with a modest lift probably OK but best if someone with same low lift comments. Not many appear to stay this low though. Pretty confident caster etc. Is OK.

[Wooders]

Originally Posted by Thol

Started with SS flexy at lowest lift available, ended up around 40mm.
Installed Fox 2.0 0-2" shocks.
Compressed length is similar to OEM so up travel is the same and can retain existing bumpstops.

The mistake in your logic is that you are focusing only on the shock length. Ideally you should also allow for increase coil wire wraps and cumulative coil thickness change.

[Paul-JK]

And while the flexies netted a 40mm lift, their extended length is far longer than standard springs meaning you could fit longer shocks and net far more down travel. Having longer shocks would probably mean extending the bump stops but that would help prevent any potential coil bind on the flexy coils.

As an example I've got a 2.5" lift with SS Flexy coils and I'm running 4" lift shocks. I had to extend my front bump stops by 1" and the rears by about 2". In reality I could run far longer shocks getting far more flex and the coils still wouldn't fall out. However, mine flexes more than well enough for the sort of 4WD'ing that I do and getting any more flex will just give me issues elsewhere which I don't want to have to spend the money on to fix.......new drive shafts to keep them off the skid plates and the fuel tank, possibly new control arms with hiem joints to allow more movement, greater offset wheels to keep the keep the tyres off the coil towers as they tuck up under the guards when articulating,.......the list goes on.

[Thol]

Fair point on the potential for bind. Don't seem to have an issue so happy enough. Like any changes there is often a compromise trying to achieve what your after.

[Johnboy]

Check out Metalcloak they have got it right in my opinion i love my set up rides great as DD and easily maxes out 26" shocks i run 3" bumpstops to accommodate my conventional shocks but if you run their 6pack shocks you can run no bumpstops maxing up and down travel plus it drives better than stock.
Definitely worth considering i have the 3.5" kit and with bar work etc i have a 3" lift. Fully loaded for a trip it rides at 2" lift.

[Redbox]

if you look at the teraflex stuff, they quote tyer to bumpstop conparisons.