i finally received my front missing links today and installed them! i am very happy with the flex i get now but am in bad shape with the shock situation. i have the rears up front with 1"missing links, the rocky road front shock towers and rancho 5012 shocks. the problem is that when the shocks are on, they hit the u bolt plates and dent the shocks. i spaced them out to prevent this but when the tire is stuffed in the wheel well the shock is to long and breaks the welds on the lower shock mount. please give me some pics of your rides that have this set up so i can compare them to mine. any tips or advice would be great! i would like to stay away from a bumpstop if all posssible because i can stuff my tire in the wheel well all the way. thanks in advance!

I cut the bump stop off the frame and mounted the shock ontop of the axle like a Toy axle then made new bump stops
It keeps them off of the perch plate.iLL look for a pic later

I run the lower mount on top of the axle with a Breeze mount. Upper mounts are ford towers mounted full length up as high as I could get them. With 9012's I have about 4-5" of up travel.

thanks guys! anymore pics would be great!

I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING COILS????

<font color="green">I run the TT front and rear YJ missing link. Not sure what you want to see, but here is a pic (attached above)
I run Yota axles and the Frod front shock towers, and shocks (32" ext.) from Advance Auto Parts. </font color>

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going coils? why do you say that?

Guess it was somebody else I sent a [bleep] load of pics to on link setups for coils

i'll take some. [img]images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

First, you need to clip off the corner of the u-bolt clamp plate on a 45* angle right to the edge of the lockwasher, then round the corners. If you have more than 4" of up travel, then you are going to do more than break the lower shock weld. After you go beyond 4" you are eventually going to kink your springs over the edge of the spring perch. You either have to install a bump stop, or put on a shock with a shorter compressed length as it is now acting as your bump stop and tearing the lower weld off, not to mention the damage it is doing to the shock wiper seal and internals.

HTH, TGT - NCO