I have a 3.5 OME lift now for a few years. The thing that has bothered me since new is how overly soft and extreme body roll. It rides nice but hit dips in the road or slow turns it just fells like rolley polely if that's a term. I'm wondering about adding stiffer shocks. Do others think there shocks are to soft. And if so what did they replace them with and were they happy with the change.

Do you have your sway bars on?

Yes

5100s will change all that.

Ive been looking at those.

I'm thinkin bout buyin the Emu shocks. Did you not like em from the start or do you have a bunch of miles on em and they got soft?

I have the ome 4 1/2 mine does the same thing. Nice smooth ride though super nice crawling . I just thought my lift was getting lazy. I may look into those 5100's too. I heard good things about them

I just found them on the street to be to soft and dippy they tend to dive into dips and sway. Off road there fine. They have bothered me since new.

My truck rides firm, extremely firm.

No dips, no wiggles, no sway.


If you want to feel the road...........get the 5100s.

I just ordered them. Thanks for the info everyone.

I have a set of N series that came with a OME lift kit.

The shocks seem to be working well, except for one problem. The bell housings are rusting out, plus the primary tubes have rust. I drive on an ocean beach quite alot . The beach salt has corroded the bell housings that cover the rod. I haven't yet removed for further inspection to determine how much rust damage there is with the primary tubes. Rear shocks appear to be worse than the fronts.

Bilsteins are rebuildable whereas AFAIK the OMEs are not.

I would need to spend ~$400.00 to replace, go with a cheaper shock or possibly a monotube. I prefer the duals over a monotube. Off-road I don't really do anything extreme other than logging, forest service roads and a few trails.

I have a set of used Les Swab monotubes, that were removed with approx 25,000 miles, however the monotubes are standard length and not a length for OME medium lift.

Is there anyway to restore, repair a shocks's bell housing on a dual shock?

The bell housing that covers the rod appears to be the worst as the ones I looked at on the rear are completely rusted through. The bell housing metal over the rods has started to flake off. There appears to be spots on the primary tubes that are starting have significant rust. Haven't really inspected them any further, other than taking a look at them from underneath the Jeep.

I suppose I could try to repair them, clean them up, repaint, add some sort of metal covering and weld any weak spots on the primary tubes.

Any thoughts on how to approach a repair if possible?

When I bought my 5100's several yrs. back I was pointed in their direction by a lot of the older members here and there experience with them.


It was sage advice I was given.

OP, do you have OME shocks with your lift? I've got OME Nitrocharger Sports (stiffer), and they definitely ride firmer than a friend's Jeep with Bilstein 5100s. He's got RE leafs and springs, and I've got OME leafs with stiff RE springs.

The OME equipment also handles on-road considerably better than his RE setup, however that's of course due to a larger collection of factors.

That's one that I hadn't thought of. It does look
like a good shock.