triangulated rear shocks
 

I was just wondering if there will be a ride difference on road when changing the rear shock setup to a triangulated setup. My buddy just changed his to tri-setup, and it didn't seem to change his ride, and let his rear have about a 1ft better droop.... yet he has loaded 93 SR5, with an extended cab and a v-6. I mean his truck rides like a cadillac even with the SAS, mine on the other hand is a 87' single cab 4-banger, and much lighter, so i figured it might make it ride even worse. Any help will be appreciated. :)

anyone?

I found the truck has more body roll both on and off highway, but the droop didn't change much on my setup - it was pretty good to start with...

...what it did do is allow me to run the same length shock but have it mounted on top of the axle for a snag free rear axle.

http://www.bajataco.com/desoto04/L_desoto223.jpg

shows the truck w/ the right rear hanging at full droop, the left side is stuffed to the bed rail.

it helped his truck because his shock bottomed out before, and kept the tire from a full drop, but does the body roll seem to be too bad ... because I already have a bad-high center of gravity :bang: because of my youth and ignornace, and until i have time to take the body lift off, i need to try to keep it on four wheels when off road.
thank you for the help

I guess my ride softened up a bit when I switched my rear shocks to the inward position. You lose damping rate as the the shocks move away from straight up and down. I have Rancho 9000s w/ in-cab adjuster, so I can compensate for the loss of damping. Not bad, though on-road and off-road it works very well. Pretty easy to max out the shocks in the stock location, you eithr have too short a shock and limit droop or too long a shock and limit compression travel. When I re-did the rear shocks, I made the upper mounting point adjustable so I can fine-tune the shock travel to match the suspension travel:

http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/4R_suspe...l#RshockUpdate

very good... thats what i will do too, i also have rancho 9000's, while i've never been a rancho guy, they are adjustable, mine are just adj. on the side of the shock and not in my cab, i got them because they are absolutley the softest, i leave mine at 1 becuase there just isn't any weight to my truck. They ride exeptionally well and don't loadup at all off road... and the same with the travel... the rancho's are 34" shocks with maybe 12 inches of travel :think: if i'm lucky... but thank you for the help :D