Broke my rear fender off road, solutions?

Oldfart said:

Future post from Harvey, "I think I may need an alignment!"

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Those Gen1 just couldn't handle a jump very well.

After watching his videos, I find this hard to believe.

get deaver +4s and the hydraulic bump,
+4s give you extra compression, you need it
stock shocks aren’t going to keep up to your punishment
harvey, budget for some kings, kings are better than eibachs up front too

oh you need bed support too before it gets jolted out of shape

Peterb said:

get deaver +4s and the hydraulic bump,
+4s give you extra compression, you need it
stock shocks aren’t going to keep up to your punishment
harvey, budget for some kings, kings are better than eibachs up front too

oh you need bed support too before it gets jolted out of shape

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this sounds expensive , replace the fox shocks for king shocks? Deavers I think I will get. Thank you.

I think I saw a SVC bump stop kit in the classified section. It’s a chunk of money but leafs and bumpstops make sense to do together.

Harvey Singh said:

this sounds expensive , replace the fox shocks for king shocks? Deavers I think I will get. Thank you.

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10-15k. cheap, lol

Peterb said:

get deaver +4s and the hydraulic bump,
+4s give you extra compression, you need it

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Taller springs do not give extra compression, you have to change shocks to get that. Once the wheels are dangling free in the air you are limited by shock travel. You want the droop zone of the suspension as large as possible to absorb the jump impact, lift springs without longer shocks is a step in the wrong direction.

If you go with Deavers +4 and then an extended length shackle to increase the droop and reduce (nearly eliminate the lift of the springs) do the OE Fox shocks have enough travel to accommodate the extended droop of the drop shackles?

Increasing spring arch for lift then taking away the lift by lengthening the shackle is counter productive.

You are getting more theoretical travel but you are still limited by the location of the frame in relation to the axle so your net is still zero, but now you have messed up the geometry of the rear end by changing the shackle position.

The stock shocks are already at the limit of droop, you cannot increase droop unless you lower the truck (bringing the axle closer to the frame) or increase the shock length.

Any time you increase spring arch (going to a +4 spring that is stock eye to eye length) you are sacrificing ride quality, and traction off road will suffer due to the increased stiffness.

When you look at what is really involved in extending the rear end travel of one of these trucks air bumps become a very economical solution.