Enforced_Leo44
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Hi everyone,
My rear shocks are shot, so I took them off, measured them and bought a equivalent lenght/travel from Bilstein, 5125 series (yet to install for reasons that I'm about to explain). My truck is not stock, and has been so for the past 3-4 owners.
Bad news is: previous owner decided to mangle up the shocks mounting/system and mess everything up, my shocks sit outside of the leaf springs instead of inside, and with the eyelets of the shocks facing the wrong direction, meaning the shocks can pivot left and right but not back and forth, which I guess is what demolished my current shocks because of binding.
Now, since the original mounting points and brackets are long gone (and since I'm in Italy I can't seem to find them without spending upwards of 1k$ a pair), I was thinking about re-repositioning the shocks to what I think is a better non-stock system
Like this (picture for reference, it's not my truck nor it's a CUCV/Squarebody, just to give an idea):
By putting a cross member above the axle of course, since I don't think there's one there from factory
I have ways of fabricating the required brackets, the questions are:
Is this a safe way of doing things?
Am I going to mess something that might lead to a catastrophic outcome?
In the stock system, one shock is angled backward and one forward, does that serve a precise function that might screw up the drivability of the truck if removed?
Thanks in advance for any advice
Leo
My rear shocks are shot, so I took them off, measured them and bought a equivalent lenght/travel from Bilstein, 5125 series (yet to install for reasons that I'm about to explain). My truck is not stock, and has been so for the past 3-4 owners.
Bad news is: previous owner decided to mangle up the shocks mounting/system and mess everything up, my shocks sit outside of the leaf springs instead of inside, and with the eyelets of the shocks facing the wrong direction, meaning the shocks can pivot left and right but not back and forth, which I guess is what demolished my current shocks because of binding.
Now, since the original mounting points and brackets are long gone (and since I'm in Italy I can't seem to find them without spending upwards of 1k$ a pair), I was thinking about re-repositioning the shocks to what I think is a better non-stock system
Like this (picture for reference, it's not my truck nor it's a CUCV/Squarebody, just to give an idea):
By putting a cross member above the axle of course, since I don't think there's one there from factory
I have ways of fabricating the required brackets, the questions are:
Is this a safe way of doing things?
Am I going to mess something that might lead to a catastrophic outcome?
In the stock system, one shock is angled backward and one forward, does that serve a precise function that might screw up the drivability of the truck if removed?
Thanks in advance for any advice
Leo