06 H3
a.k.a. "The Jackal"
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HOLY ****! I cant contain myself....the ride quality difference is amazing. Ok now thats out of the way I can explain.
An issue brought to my attention was that the rancho shock was hitting up against the bumpstop bracket which put load on a shock from the side. Thats no good. It will blow your shock.
The only reason I call this a redux is because to date everyone with rancho lifts on this forum are stuck with rancho shocks. So rancho redux 1 was rancho ucp, #2 was rear sagging springs #3 was steering rack bolt interference and now #4.
Anyways, The rancho shocks are already subpar IMO. I ran with them since January of 2011 (IIRC) They are the original shocks I put on with the lift kit. I blew those shocks out probably 2 years ago. I kept running them until I had enough. My brother and I were doing some wheeling a week ago, high speed dirt road kinda stuff and I came off a small jump, didnt fully get it airborne but upon landing my front end kept bouncing and bouncing, extremely dangerous! It caught me off guard pretty bad. So that was it...
So now what? Rancho shocks are the only "lift" shock for the lift I have. No one else makes a shock for the 4in over stock category. Most are for leveling kits. I found a guy on instagram running bilsteins and a rancho kit. He said 4wp did it, he had no clue what the compressed and extended length were all he said was that he thought they were from a silverado.
So time to get searching! The rancho shocks are a measly 17in compressed 19in extended...HORRIFIC!
So I started searching for every silverado shock via part #. I then cross referenced the part # to the bilstein catalog which had specs on every shock.
The Silverado shock shares the same type of clevis for the lower shock mount and the stud on the top.
I found these.
http://cart.bilsteinus.com/productsearch/24-185950
With an extended length of 21.38 the a arm would hit the droop stop before topping out, which will help prevent damage.
With a collapsed length of 14.15 the bumpstop will bottom out way before full compression and best of all they are valved with the weight of a V8 in mind, I have a winch hanging off so I wanted something stiffer.
Now what about the bumpstop bracket hitting the shock? Same thing was going to occur with the bilsteins so it was time to take out the grinder. I grinded down the bumpstop bracket from the side so now there is plenty of clearance for the shock to avoid taking load from the side.
I also threw in some brand new oem bumpstops while I was there, I picked them up used never actually used though from davidh3 a year ago. I drove and holy ****! It stays planted now, no more bouncing and bull****. Its a new vehicle to me now!!!!
The rear still wants to lean, the shock are too soft for the rear especially with the spring over the spring sit flatter and are softer. I will be getting hand-me-down bilsteins from my brother as he just picked up some kings.
I was getting pretty sick and tired of my IFS but this just brought it back to life! KOH testing this weekend!
grinded down
An issue brought to my attention was that the rancho shock was hitting up against the bumpstop bracket which put load on a shock from the side. Thats no good. It will blow your shock.
The only reason I call this a redux is because to date everyone with rancho lifts on this forum are stuck with rancho shocks. So rancho redux 1 was rancho ucp, #2 was rear sagging springs #3 was steering rack bolt interference and now #4.
Anyways, The rancho shocks are already subpar IMO. I ran with them since January of 2011 (IIRC) They are the original shocks I put on with the lift kit. I blew those shocks out probably 2 years ago. I kept running them until I had enough. My brother and I were doing some wheeling a week ago, high speed dirt road kinda stuff and I came off a small jump, didnt fully get it airborne but upon landing my front end kept bouncing and bouncing, extremely dangerous! It caught me off guard pretty bad. So that was it...
So now what? Rancho shocks are the only "lift" shock for the lift I have. No one else makes a shock for the 4in over stock category. Most are for leveling kits. I found a guy on instagram running bilsteins and a rancho kit. He said 4wp did it, he had no clue what the compressed and extended length were all he said was that he thought they were from a silverado.
So time to get searching! The rancho shocks are a measly 17in compressed 19in extended...HORRIFIC!
So I started searching for every silverado shock via part #. I then cross referenced the part # to the bilstein catalog which had specs on every shock.
The Silverado shock shares the same type of clevis for the lower shock mount and the stud on the top.
I found these.
http://cart.bilsteinus.com/productsearch/24-185950
With an extended length of 21.38 the a arm would hit the droop stop before topping out, which will help prevent damage.
With a collapsed length of 14.15 the bumpstop will bottom out way before full compression and best of all they are valved with the weight of a V8 in mind, I have a winch hanging off so I wanted something stiffer.
Now what about the bumpstop bracket hitting the shock? Same thing was going to occur with the bilsteins so it was time to take out the grinder. I grinded down the bumpstop bracket from the side so now there is plenty of clearance for the shock to avoid taking load from the side.
I also threw in some brand new oem bumpstops while I was there, I picked them up used never actually used though from davidh3 a year ago. I drove and holy ****! It stays planted now, no more bouncing and bull****. Its a new vehicle to me now!!!!
The rear still wants to lean, the shock are too soft for the rear especially with the spring over the spring sit flatter and are softer. I will be getting hand-me-down bilsteins from my brother as he just picked up some kings.
I was getting pretty sick and tired of my IFS but this just brought it back to life! KOH testing this weekend!
grinded down
