Fox Shocks On A Yj.

[NAILER341]

well, you may have read in another post that i went and bought these fancy fox shocks. well, i did the installation over the past couple of days.

i did not just remove the old rancho shocks, and bolt these on, however.
i cut off the stock shock tower, and customized a ford shock tower to suit my needs. i really wanted tio get the shocks out of the way of the rocks, and eliminate as many things as possible to get hung up on down there.

you will see in a couple of these pics, the custom u bolt set up i made as well. the u bolt plates hang down below the spring only 1/4". this is a hell of a lot better than the 1-1/8" it used to hand down.

well, back to the shock installation.

in the picture below you will see on the right, the stock ford shock mount. it is made of 3/16" thick steel. beefy stuff!
the one on the left is what i had to shape it in to.
i flared out the sides, and notched it to fit over the frame to attain maximum clearance from the tire in all positions.



in this picture, you will see how high up on the axle tube the bottom of the shock it. it is completely out of harms way.



here are a couple more pics of the finished mount, and flexing it out

[Darrell C]

Those Ford shock towers sure do look familiar?

Nicely done. I like how you adapted the tower to fit over the frame. Did you tip it outwards at the top?

[NAILER341]

yes, it is tilted outward at the top. you can barely see it on the last pic.

[Chris L]

Looks good Erik. Looks like you have more flex now.
Did you test the structual integrity of this modification?

[blkTJ]

good job erik, damn I hope the're better than those ranchos.

[blkTJ]

holy crap!!! I just realised that erik has 666 posts... yikes!!!

[NAILER341]

Originally posted by blkTJ
holy crap!!! I just realised that erik has 666 posts... yikes!!!

good eye brian! i was the debbil overnight