Just finished up repairing this and thought I would share. Both spring perches were braking off and cracked the frame. Stock shock towers and extended fox shocks with the bottom through bolt plate the shocks only had a couple inches of up travel before being at full compression. Mind you this is an old build but over time off roading finally broke it. We drilled stop holes in all the cracks on the frame. Ground everything down, welded up every crack. Re ground the frame flat and added a metal plate inside the perch. That we rose welded in and all the way around. Had to make a new support strap on the passenger side as the old one was completely cracked in half. Good coat of self etching primer and 2 coats of Rust-Oleum to seal it all up.
After it was all back together we added RTE adjustable shock towers and raised the shock up in the turret to add a little more up travel and prevent bottoming out the shock. Focused installation on down travel that the spring would not dislocate from the upper rubber perch to far allowing to much down travel. Relocated the shock reservoirs. Then off to test it in the articulation track at the ranch.
Just something to think about when building your suspension.
After it was all back together we added RTE adjustable shock towers and raised the shock up in the turret to add a little more up travel and prevent bottoming out the shock. Focused installation on down travel that the spring would not dislocate from the upper rubber perch to far allowing to much down travel. Relocated the shock reservoirs. Then off to test it in the articulation track at the ranch.
Just something to think about when building your suspension.
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