staggered rear shock conversion

Voteban · Feb 23, 2012

Fruit for nismo's thought, shocks help combat wheel hop, which is not always caused by axle wrap. With your shocks not being closer to 100% effective I'd imagine this would intensify wheel hop, which is bad, even in "a lot of rocks and snow". Wheel hop is horrible in the rocks, it almost always stops forward progress unless you're really hammering it. Throttle + wheel hop = broken parts.

nismo5 · Feb 24, 2012

ROBZ95Xj said:
Your lazy the not lazy way would of been to run them through the floor so there working at the proper angle

no im smart enough not to cut holes in my floor for shocks that probably dont ride or work any better even in the right position all rough countrys stuff is crap if i had even some decent shocks i might have went a different direction

Voteban said:
Fruit for nismo's thought, shocks help combat wheel hop, which is not always caused by axle wrap. With your shocks not being closer to 100% effective I'd imagine this would intensify wheel hop, which is bad, even in "a lot of rocks and snow". Wheel hop is horrible in the rocks, it almost always stops forward progress unless you're really hammering it. Throttle + wheel hop = broken parts.

this is great food for though although ive never really had any real bad wheel hop i could see it being alot worse if your shocks aren't helping

DanMan2k06 · Feb 24, 2012

Christ I just wasted about 10 minutes reading this thread. Talk about physics/logic fail.

Voteban · Feb 25, 2012

DanMan2k06 said:
Christ I just wasted about 10 minutes reading this thread. Talk about physics/logic fail.

I just wasted about 10 seconds reading this post. Talk about useful info fail.

ktm racer 419 · Feb 25, 2012

nismo5 said:
nope there at 45*

and as the suspension compresses they get even less effective

kdub41 · Feb 25, 2012

u know the shackle angle should be at about 40 to 45 degrees right and not your shocks? and jks makes an adjustable shock mount that would probable be a little bit better.

nismo5 · Feb 25, 2012

ktm racer 419 said:
and as the suspension compresses they get even less effective

true! but when i flex wouldnt one get less effective and one get more effective ??

kdub41 said:
u know the shackle angle should be at about 40 to 45 degrees right and not your shocks? and jks makes an adjustable shock mount that would probable be a little bit better.

if i different angle would have fit i wouldnt have put them at such a bad angle in the first place :wow: any less of an angle and my shocks would have been too long as stated earlier i did what i had to do to save money and run the shocks that came with my kit for now

xcm · Feb 26, 2012

nismo5 said:
i did what i had to do to save money and run the shocks that came with my kit for now

cheers, i hear that.

wildcat-xj · Feb 26, 2012

thanks for the helpful info.

i will keep my shocks the way they were intended.

SC Rednek · Feb 26, 2012

wildcat-xj said:
i will keep my shocks the way they were intended.

Excellent choice

staggered rear shock conversion

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