Getting ready to build up/fix up the bottom half of my runner, and noticed that the rear shocks mount to the stock u-bolt plate. My newb question: How and where do you relocate the mounts with the flip kit?! thanks in advance fellas!

 

Get some shock taps and weld them to the rear end like in the picture.

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And thats that! thanks for the pic man!

I know my upper mounts arent where yours are in the pic, are those moved aswell?

 

There was another frame brace welded in and the upper shock mounts were welded to that. You get better use of your shocks when there mounted the way i have mine.

 

Cool, I'll look around and see what mounts are out there! Hate to spam you with questions, but your suspension setup is what i'm trying to go for. Its sick by the way!

The saying is, with a solid axle you can go any suspension lift height you want. After lots of reading on here and other great links, I'm still wondering: is the lift achieved through different leaf spring packs? thanks

 

not exactly true, at some point you need to consider U Joint ANgle.
More leaves (from what I understand) will offer better flex than a similar arched spring with fewer leaves of the same length. the 63" rear chevy swap may have fewer leafs than some shorter packs but gain the flex from the increase lenth. Again this is what I understand (been known to be wrong, just ask my wife) my 4" front pack has 5 leafs and 7 in the rear 5" pack

also for front ubolt flips upfront(you run into issues with it clearing on the driver side) you need high steer, which means a 3" min lift

start doing some research

edit: another approach for shock mounting:


mounts on top of the axle tube. new upper mounting points.
you can get an upper mount from SKy's Off Road manufactured

 

thanks guys, all of this helps along with the research! Think I'm going to look into the math and angles and all that on triangulated rear shocks.

Got Hy-steer in the works for the next week, then all the other cool stuff to follow!

 

Mine:
- http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/4R_suspe...shtml#R-Shocks