shocks for a soa

[cjohnson]

i am puttin a soa lift on my 87 yj, what length shocks and stabalizer shocks do i need?

 

[chupacabrah]

you will need to measure shock travel.
at rest, droop, and uptravel I think.

this can vary a lot depending on a lot of things:
axles, shock tab location, upper mount location, springs...etc

some links:
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f12/shocks-101-a-427967/
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f12/measuring-new-shocks-407270/

 

[hoop]

I took the completely unscientific route, I measured the complete amount of lift I was adding,ie: spring pack+perches+axle tube and then looked in a Quadratec catalog for shocks that matched that lift. Worked pretty good for me, 2 1/2 years on a SOA, been to Uwharrie and streched the hell outta everything and no probs...if I remember correctly I figured I was adding 6.5"

 

[cjohnson]

thanks guys also i know the shocks need to be longer and right now i have a 4.5 lift and am doin the soa, but do the stabilizer shocks need to be bigger?

 

[jds97Wrangler]

thanks guys also i know the shocks need to be longer and right now i have a 4.5 lift and am doin the soa, but do the stabilizer shocks need to be bigger?

Are you going to do the SOA using 4.5" lift springs? If you do that is going to a lot of lift for YJ. I pretty sure you'll end up with close to 10" of lift from stock. I did an SOA on CJ using stock YJ springs and got close to 6" of lift.

You might want to consider going with a little less spring for safety purposes. Especially if you plan to do much wheeling with it.

 

[chupacabrah]

what he said ^^ that would be super tall.
most people use stock YJ, XJ, or low lift (<=2") springs.

I traded my 3.5" lift springs for some RE SOA 1.5" springs.