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Old 12-18-2011, 07:45 PM
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Know I've heard/seen people cut through the rear floor and build new shook mounts, but I can seem to find any threads about it now. I'm just looking or some Ideas.

I relocated my lower shock mounts up to the axle housing and now I have very limited up travel, and I'd like to get my mounts all worked out before I buy new shocks
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Know I've heard/seen people cut through the rear floor and build new shook mounts, but I can seem to find any threads about it now. I'm just looking or some Ideas.

I relocated my lower shock mounts up to the axle housing and now I have very limited up travel, and I'd like to get my mounts all worked out before I buy new shocks
I have some ideas but they are just drawings. Dd or trail rig?
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i run a rear shock hoop. i may have a couple pics but not really a write up on it.
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here's the on i made back in '05 and ran it until jan. of this yr.
only pic i could find of it.


also here's a link to a thread on NAXJA.
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthrea...ght=shock+hoop

there's actually quite a few threads on the subject over there.
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nice suspenders on those seats
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heres a couple of pics i have collected

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heres a couple of pics i have collected



Please update your build thread on jeep forum haha.
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Wow, those look pretty cool. I don't think I am going to go with that big of a shock tho. This jeep is about 95%trail/5% Road driven. I figured I would run the top of the tube to the same height as my gas tank enclosure and then try to box it in with an access panel, kinda like the gas tank. That would gain me like 6-7" of shock length over where I am now.

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my unfinished shock hoop

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nice suspenders on those seats
ya they worked pretty good as harnesses for the last 5 yrs
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