After searching around on the board it seems that on my new SOA with stock springs, I should use RS9112's up front with RS9118's in the rear.

Can anyone verify that or suggest other models that would work? I don't mind reworking mounts.

Thanks.

After going thru this several times on my own and with LSC members there are several variations on a SO that will affect it. you ought to twist the truck up and take measurements, just to make sure they will work, I have seen a bunch of different rear lower mounting options that can affect the length of the rears.
Most likely those numbers will work though.
Butch

As Butch said - a lot can depend upon your shock mounts/location, amount of lift, etc. A lot of us are using 9012's - which is the longest available. You will probably have to put taller shock towers in the front and shift the rear upper mounts further to the center of the truck. HTH

So are you guys running 9012's all the way around?

Like I said, i don't mind extending towers and moving rear mounts. I just wanted to get some shocks before the 'buy 3 get one free' is over at the end of June.

Man,

Speaking from experience, don't buy shocks until you twist your truck up!

DON'T DO IT! Just assuming your SOA is the same as anothers is crazy!

Been there, lost $$$ on that (a couple of times)

www.hotrod-offroad.com always sells 9000 series Ranchos for what 4WPH sells the "buy 3 get 1 free" deal.

For example, I went and bought 9012's all around with Ford SHock Towers it the front and I moved the tops of the shocks inboard to accomidate longer shocks.

I disliked having the rear shocks inboarded, they could not control the bouncing. I switched to 9012's with the bottoms on the outermost place on the axle tube and the tops in the original location.

My 9012's were right in length on the front with the Ford towers, but when I went SOA, they were hitting my ubolt plates on each side.

I ended up going to 9112's and mounting the bottoms to the ubolt plate itself.

After I went to 42's I then switched to Doetch Tech shocks in the front that are between 9012's and 9112's .

I found the correct size on that awesome spreadsheet Woody has on IH8MUD.COM

Here is how I mounted the shocks in the front on the Ubolt plates

Thanks! I apreciate the info!

Originally posted by KrustyKruiser
A lot of us are using 9012's - which is the longest available.

Not that it matters much, but they recently released a 15" travel shock, the 9036, which is 36" extended, and the 9034, at 34" extended, and 14" travel. I'd really like to use the 9036 for my SO, but it's gonna be a pain to extend the shock mount ANOTHER 5" upwards...