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  After upgrading to stock 4 pack YJ
springs using the Sky YJ Kit I thought I was ready to hit the trails
and show the world my new flex. It did not take long to realize
that flex is easy. Good flex seems to take a lot more work, and
money. Flex is just that—flexy springs. Good flex doesn’t rub or
scrub or break anything. I didn’t have the good flex. YET!
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  The first step in finding the good
flex was addressing my way too short shock problems. I called Sean at Low Range Offroad
and lined up a set of Sky Shock Hoops, a Spidertrax upper rear shock
mount and some weld on rear lower mounts. I also purchased a set of
Doetsch Tech 8000 shocks for the rear to match the set I had already
picked up from one of my Jeep buddies.
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  When the brown box arrived I was amazed at the
quality, I am not sure why I was amazed, I should be used to getting top
notch stuff from Sky and Low Range by now. Even though it was late
afternoon when it came in I still went out and held up the Shock hoops
in the front wheel wells to see what they were going to look like. Come
on now, you would have done that too, at least I wasn’t making the vroom
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 The rear setup was even easier to install, except
for the exhaust. A while back I had added a Sky bolt on traction bar,
which meant I had to cut and rotate my muffler so they would not hit. The
new upper shock mount allows the shocks to be angled inwards for extra
length and that was going to put the shock on the driver’s side in the
exact same place as the exhaust pipe. No problem, I broke out the sawzall and no more exhaust in the way. After that I bolted the upper
shock hanger to the existing shock mounts and used the shocks to find
the exact location for my new lower shock mounts. Welded the lower
mounts on and then bolted up the shocks. Wahoo, now I have way long
travel shocks front and rear, so I must have the good flex! NOT YET.
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 All it took was one trip to the ditch by my house
to see that I have MAJOR rubbing and scrubbing issues. Out comes the
sawzall again and I removed another 2 inches from each side of the frame
tube that used to be part of the front bumper mount. That was easier
said than done since I also had to cut through the 1.5” cold rolled solid
re-enforcement that was in that frame tube.
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Source:
Low Range Off-Road, LC sales@lowrangeoffroad.com
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