Front upper: As you can see, the bottom of the Ford tower is very close to even with the bottom of the frame, and the top of the mount touches the fender well. It doesn't look like there is much up travel, but it compresses the shock bumstop to about 1/2", and the up travel is perfect for me.

http://a6.cpimg.com/image/2E/6C/9264686-29bb-028001AA-.jpg

http://a7.cpimg.com/image/2F/6C/9264687-eed7-028001AA-.jpg

http://a8.cpimg.com/image/30/6C/9264688-80b6-028001AA-.jpg

Front lower: 1/2" bolt, head cut off, welded to spring plate. I just used washers on both sides of the shock eye.

http://a4.cpimg.com/image/2C/6C/9264684-6cf3-028001AA-.jpg

http://a5.cpimg.com/image/2D/6C/9264685-46bf-028001AA-.jpg

Rear upper: Spidertrax mount.

http://a6.cpimg.com/image/38/6D/9264696-0942-028001AA-.jpg

Rear lower: Spidertrax mounts welded to front of housing.

http://a5.cpimg.com/image/37/6D/9264695-bcb1-028001AA-.jpg

There ya go guys. :) ~Steve

Looks good:smokin:

Thank you Squirlman. I was wondering if you'd forget. That helps. Just in time too. Tomorrow is starting day! I'll send pics when I get it done...

whoa man you dont have much up-travel on those rears...dont do any dune-hopping or you might see shocks coming through the rear floor!!!!;) :nuke:

RRO front uppers mounted backwards and stock bumpstop frame mounts cut off.
http://tellico.off-road.com/wwwthreads_uploads/728543-shokmount2.jpg
works for me:D

Originally posted by tZUKnami
Thank you Squirlman. I was wondering if you'd forget. That helps. Just in time too. Tomorrow is starting day! I'll send pics when I get it done...

Just got the film back today. Do you have any idea how hard it is to use up 14 pictures of film on shock mounts? LOL. Good luck! ~Steve

Originally posted by spencurai
whoa man you dont have much up-travel on those rears...dont do any dune-hopping or you might see shocks coming through the rear floor!!!!;) :nuke:

Actually, I have plenty of travel. ;) As you can see, the bumpstops don't have any paint coming off (from compression) like the front. It compresses great, too. Not much shock gets used up when they are mounted at an angle like that. But you're right, it doesn't look like much. :p ~Steve

Just got the film back today. Do you have any idea how hard it is to use up 14 pictures of film on shock mounts? LOL. Good luck! ~Steve


Are you trying to say that you have 7 more to post???:D

Originally posted by zuk88
RRO front uppers mounted backwards and stock bumpstop frame mounts cut off.
http://tellico.off-road.com/wwwthreads_uploads/728543-shokmount2.jpg
works for me:D

How well do your shocks clear the u-bolt plates? What lowers did ya go with? I now that was a big thing when I talked to Brent. The lowers had to be mounted way outta the way of the u-bolt plate since they are so big and the shock would hit 'em. Looks good! :) ~Steve

Originally posted by tZUKnami



Are you trying to say that you have 7 more to post???:D

Actually, I took a pic of my front bumper, my rock lights, Hi-Lift in the back of the tub, and how my Powertank is mounted. And yes, one or two more poor quality shock mount pics. :D ~Steve

Well, like I said I appreciate it. I am still not too sur what I am going to do for front lowers. If I go the way you did I will probably end up cutting the fender for the tower to be mounted higher and getting my travel that way. How much of the shock shaft shows at rest front and rear on yours?

Originally posted by squirrelman83


How well do your shocks clear the u-bolt plates? What lowers did ya go with? I now that was a big thing when I talked to Brent. The lowers had to be mounted way outta the way of the u-bolt plate since they are so big and the shock would hit 'em. Looks good! :) ~Steve

I thought that would be a problem with the RRO lowers, because they mount below the axle on the stock spring perch. After I went to the Trail Tough YJ kit I was lucky enough to have leaned the towers back enough with the old suspension to clear the new spring plates...but it's real close and I might have to trim the corners a bit. I was going to relocate the lower mounts but with Toy axles going in sooner or later, why bother??

Originally posted by tZUKnami
Well, like I said I appreciate it. I am still not too sur what I am going to do for front lowers. If I go the way you did I will probably end up cutting the fender for the tower to be mounted higher and getting my travel that way. How much of the shock shaft shows at rest front and rear on yours?

These were taken sitting in my driveway. It isn't compressed. I know it doesn't look like I have any up-travel, and that pissed me off at first, but once I took it out and flexed it, the bumpstop compressed real nicely. I like how it ended up. Compresses just right for me. ~Steve

When I ran the Fordyce Creek trail a few years ago I didn't have any frame mounted bumpstops on the front and just had the ones on the DT8000 shafts. On winch hill #3 I heard a pop and the pressure from the shock bottoming out broke the lower shock mount off the axle. Thank God Pat Grimillion(sp) was in camp with his on board welder to fix me up. I recommend frame mounted bumpstops unless you got some really good welds holding the mounts on.:smokin:

Originally posted by zuk88
When I ran the Fordyce Creek trail a few years ago I didn't have any frame mounted bumpstops on the front and just had the ones on the DT8000 shafts. On winch hill #3 I heard a pop and the pressure from the shock bottoming out broke the lower shock mount off the axle. Thank God Pat Grimillion(sp) was in camp with his on board welder to fix me up. I recommend frame mounted bumpstops unless you got some really good welds holding the mounts on.:smokin:

Thanks for the advice. I'll look into some other bumpstops after I get the toy axles swapped in. They are welded on pretty good, but it seems like "pretty good" isn't very relevent in rock-crawling. :D ~Steve

what length and brand shocks are you using front and rear?

Originally posted by jims4x4
what length and brand shocks are you using front and rear?

Doetsch Tech 8000's, model 8368 on all 4 corners. They are about 30" extended and 17" compressed, and I use all of it. :D ~Steve