Longer shocks with T-bar lift
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Longer shocks with T-bar lift - 2/5/2008 12:06:25 PM
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WolfPack
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With the addition of the grille guard, my front end sinks. Coupled with the already raked front end, I want to level it out.
Now I know if I were just to crank the bars I would decrease suspension travel, and would thus need longer shocks up front, but the question is how much longer?
Would I need to lift the bars to the desired level, measure the difference, and then get that much longer of a shock? Also, if my T-Bars are worn and sag a little bit, and I could only get say.... 1/2 '' of lift, could I put 1 inch longer shocks in to get a bit more lift? It just seems to me that even with sagging bars, they're still supporting the body, just not enough..and a longer shock would give that little bit of extra support to get the lift. Is any of this right?
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RE: Longer shocks with T-bar lift - 2/5/2008 12:12:19 PM
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swartlkk
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If all that you are doing is compensating for the additional weight on the front of the truck, all you need to do is crank the torsion bars. This won't limit your suspension travel, just return it to stock ride height. If you wanted to go further, then your ride quality may suffer, but I'll let others that have done this comment on that.
Also, if you are just going to restore the ride height, stock shocks will work perfectly fine. I don't even think that people that do a 1.5" lift through T-bar crank change out the shocks.
< Message edited by swartlkk -- 2/5/2008 12:16:30 PM >
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RE: Longer shocks with T-bar lift - 2/5/2008 12:15:06 PM
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Zasder
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I know mine were sagging as well, and I had to crank the right side to the max to gain about 1/2 above stock hieght, and barly touched the left side to gain the same height...
I dont think changing the shocks would increase the ride height though... I may be wrong...
I know after I put on my back shackles, I still have the factory shocks and there strtched to the max, but havent broken yet...(knock on wood)
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