shocks!!

Originally posted by schardbody



im running none in the front and some KYB gr-2s in the rear, they are for a mercury villager van, specs are 11.5" compressed and 18.5" extended.

by the way, its differant on pretty much every vehicle, a truck setup to lay on 20s isnt going to run anything close to a truck setup to lay on 16" etc etc.

you pretty much have to just get some shocks and figure out where to mount your tabs to get them to not bottom out or top out. Shocks aren't going to depend on wheel size. They're going to depend on suspension travel and shock mounting angle/location.

Originally posted by DroptSdime



Originally posted by schardbody



im running none in the front and some KYB gr-2s in the rear, they are for a mercury villager van, specs are 11.5" compressed and 18.5" extended.

by the way, its differant on pretty much every vehicle, a truck setup to lay on 20s isnt going to run anything close to a truck setup to lay on 16" etc etc.

you pretty much have to just get some shocks and figure out where to mount your tabs to get them to not bottom out or top out. Shocks aren't going to depend on wheel size. They're going to depend on suspension travel and shock mounting angle/location.



how you figure that??? if you are set up to run a 20" wheel the shocks will have to be mounted differantly than if you were running 15s.

think about this, if you take a truck and set it up for 15s then you put a 20" wheel on you are gonna have to move one of the mounts, if the shocks are set up right. they will either bottom out before you lay, or top out before you lift much.

Originally posted by schardbody



Originally posted by DroptSdime



Originally posted by schardbody



im running none in the front and some KYB gr-2s in the rear, they are for a mercury villager van, specs are 11.5" compressed and 18.5" extended.

by the way, its differant on pretty much every vehicle, a truck setup to lay on 20s isnt going to run anything close to a truck setup to lay on 16" etc etc.

you pretty much have to just get some shocks and figure out where to mount your tabs to get them to not bottom out or top out. Shocks aren't going to depend on wheel size. They're going to depend on suspension travel and shock mounting angle/location.



how you figure that??? if you are set up to run a 20" wheel the shocks will have to be mounted differantly than if you were running 15s.

think about this, if you take a truck and set it up for 15s then you put a 20" wheel on you are gonna have to move one of the mounts, if the shocks are set up right. they will either bottom out before you lay, or top out before you lift much.

Which will change the suspension travel, thats what he's sayin

And actually if you want to get real, wheel size has NOTHING to do with it, you could have a 16" wheel with a bigger tire than a 20" wheel

true, but i was being generic, didnt feel like giving overall wheel/tire diameters.

and i agree now that i reread what was said, we are saying the same thing. differant tire diameters mean differant travel, which means, differant setups. what both of us said, i think.

Originally posted by schardbody



Originally posted by DroptSdime



Originally posted by schardbody



im running none in the front and some KYB gr-2s in the rear, they are for a mercury villager van, specs are 11.5" compressed and 18.5" extended.

by the way, its differant on pretty much every vehicle, a truck setup to lay on 20s isnt going to run anything close to a truck setup to lay on 16" etc etc.

you pretty much have to just get some shocks and figure out where to mount your tabs to get them to not bottom out or top out. Shocks aren't going to depend on wheel size. They're going to depend on suspension travel and shock mounting angle/location.



how you figure that??? if you are set up to run a 20" wheel the shocks will have to be mounted differantly than if you were running 15s.

think about this, if you take a truck and set it up for 15s then you put a 20" wheel on you are gonna have to move one of the mounts, if the shocks are set up right. they will either bottom out before you lay, or top out before you lift much. Yea, if you change wheel/tire sizes on a setup it will affect your shocks. What I meant was, I could setup a truck to lay on 20's and another to lay on 15's and use the same exact shock. Now, if one was a lever setup getting 15" of lift and the other was an air over leaf getting 4 or 5", than yea, I would need different shocks for the two setups....

to get real, shocks have more to do with weight than wheel size.

Originally posted by rizz0



to get real, shocks have more to do with weight than wheel size.

explain what you mean. we are talking about shock setup lenghts and mounting locations. not about dampner charecteristics VS. weight.

the particular shock in any given application doesnt mean as much as how/where its mounted. as long as it moves through the full range of travel it will work. therefore, differant size wheel/tire combos require differant mounting points.