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wheeling without rear shocks

CAJJ93XJ

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my rear shocks are really limiting my rear travel. can I drive to the trail then remove them for some rock crawling?
my fear is that the leaf packs will be damaged. they are 3.5" RE leafs from before trans america bought them out
I'll get different length shocks when I get back home
 
expect lots of wheel hop and the back end bouncing, besides that it will be fun
 
Unbolt them, and then take it for a ride around the block, and then hit the brakes in a sequence that makes the rear end bounce off the ground, youd be suprised how much bounce there is

On a different note... why not just get the correct length shocks? White body shocks are like 30 bones each lol
 
On a different note... why not just get the correct length shocks? White body shocks are like 30 bones each lol

I was going to get some rubicon shocks. the thing is that the trip is this saturday and I don't have enough time to really play with the rear suspension yet.

thanks guys
 
i would rather limit my travel than run with no shocks.

wheeling with no shocks is not fun.
 
Last time out wheeling I had all shocks off to measure for shocks, measured and only put the fronts back on because one of the rears was bent so I didnt mess with them. I wheeled all day and was suprised on how much I didn't notice a difference. I still have the rears off and have mostley run aroud town and such on the weekends and havent notcied a difference either...
 
Hmm, I noticed a big difference. I was doing my lift and took a spin around the block w/out the rears on. Went through a small dip at low speed and was bouncing all the way down the street.

For the trail I would give it a go and see what you think. You can always put them back on.
I wouldn't attempt any hi speed stuff:skull2:
 
Last time out wheeling I had all shocks off to measure for shocks, measured and only put the fronts back on because one of the rears was bent so I didnt mess with them. I wheeled all day and was suprised on how much I didn't notice a difference. I still have the rears off and have mostley run aroud town and such on the weekends and havent notcied a difference either...

I guess you run white bodies
 
Last time out wheeling I had all shocks off to measure for shocks, measured and only put the fronts back on because one of the rears was bent so I didnt mess with them. I wheeled all day and was suprised on how much I didn't notice a difference. I still have the rears off and have mostley run aroud town and such on the weekends and havent notcied a difference either...

I would guess your shocks have been bad for a while. My were bad and i just changed mine with some 5150's and wow what a difference.
 
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