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Old 04-10-2014, 02:54 PM
stranger96 stranger96 is offline
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Question What shocks to choose?

Ok so I'm planning out my solid axle I almost have all the parts and the axle is almost done being built. I have a 96 extra cab with the 4.0 and I'm swapping in an hp dana 30

Now my question is what shocks do you guys recommend I've been looking at the bilstein 5125 the most in either a 12 or 14" travel. But what confused me ifs the valving. What calving would work best for this application I do tow now and then but I have an empty best most the time. My rear it's also getting 64 chevy leafs please comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated
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Old 04-11-2014, 10:14 AM
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Old 05-09-2014, 11:35 AM
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Ok so I'm planning out my solid axle I almost have all the parts and the axle is almost done being built. I have a 96 extra cab with the 4.0 and I'm swapping in an hp dana 30

Now my question is what shocks do you guys recommend I've been looking at the bilstein 5125 the most in either a 12 or 14" travel. But what confused me ifs the valving. What calving would work best for this application I do tow now and then but I have an empty best most the time. My rear it's also getting 64 chevy leafs please comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated
I ended up going with those 14" travel bilsteins for the front and rear of my sas I got rear Chevy springs a 3" lift block and I think there 6" extended shackles those bilsteins are almost bottomed out in the rear but I also moved my shock mounts on the axle up to get more Clarence so im bout to have to cut them off and move them down some and I'm getting a 2" add a leaf wick will give it some extra lift
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Old 05-12-2014, 06:08 AM
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Default Re: What shocks to choose?

IFS valving is 1.5x over what a normal coil sprung is. I run 10" 5100's and max out the current front shafts healthy travel. With the doubler setup I should be able to run 14's comfortably and am looking at bbcs' s if polyperformance still has them.
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