I stopped by Buck’s 4×4 shop here in Boise yesterday and picked up some BDS Shocks. My measurements showed I needed a pair of shocks that had a compressed size of approx 15″ and a maximum size of approx 25″. It only took them a few minutes to find what I needed. Best of all, the price was right — under $100.
Now that I had shocks, I could finally create the front shock mounts, something I’ve put off for a few months. I knew I wanted something similar to what I used last time for shock mounts. On my last jeep I took some 1/2″ steel that was 4″ wide and bent it using a 10′ tube pipe and dad’s huge vice (firmly attached to a 1000lb bench). The result were mounts that attached to the side of the frame, rounding up and out. I liked the effect, so for this jeep I wanted to do something similar. Instead of the steel I used last time, I took a piece of 1/4″ x 5.5″ x 6′ piece of steel I salvaged from my sisters’ farm and created my shock mounts from that.