His truck is uber clean. I can only dream. Darn dirt roads!

 

Wow! Welcome back riggers. Where ya been?

 

Funny, I was just thinking the same thing. Good to hear from you Riggers .

Tim M

 

She's too busy posting in The Club.

Stewart

 

I was wondering about hearing fluid slosh around on the shocks. That's ok?

 

Yes. The slight sloshing heard when flipping the shock over by hand is normal in the 9000XL.

In previous versions of the 9000 series (9000 and 9000X), such sloshing is not heard because the shock bodies are "fuller" (albeit smaller reservoir volume), and they have no gas charge per se. The aeration control is by virtue of the trapped gas within the spherical cavities of a closed cell foam sleeve in the older 9000 series.

It is very important (in fact, impertive) to mount the 9000XL shock body end down, rod end up. The older 9000 series were more forgiving in this regard, and could be mounted rod side down, and in fact a few applications of the older 9000 were directed by Rancho to be mounted rod side down.

A lot of people building custom buggies in the late 90's were using 9000 series shocks rod side down, to keep the unsprung weight lower (although it is debateable why that would matter on a rock crawler with 2.5 ton Rockwell axles, but that's besides the point). The point is you COULD mount a cell foam shock either way, but you CAN'T mount the new 9000XL shock both ways. The close up pic I posted earlier shows a big fat arrow on the XL version. The original 9000 had no such arrow.

 

Yeah I've been hiding out in the club and planning for the end of the world. ahahaha. I think widowhood has taken the last bit of brain cells I had. I have however been getting a lot of stuff accomplished around the house. When I get done with all that then I'll be working on getting my truck into winning condition. But I'm afraid all you boys are a bad influence. Making me addicted to the really shiny noisy toys I can put on my truck

 

Got my card yesterday! Thanks Riggers and everyone!
Now I'm off to find the best deal on a set of Banks headers for my V-10............

 

Got my rebate card a few weeks ago, try to use it to make sure it work before I report back here. Some site do not accept the card, some acceped it. I might be close to using up my $500 rebate

 

I used mine for the first time today. I didn't hear anything back so I guess it went through. Little over half gone.

 

Did anyone install the Rancho 900XL with MyRide Controller?
Where do you place your reciever and compressor?

Thanks,

 

So is this promo still going on??? I need some shocks! Actually, I dont even know if I need shocks. The truck isnt real bouncy, but it has stock shocks with 140k on them, I just added RAS, and figured now is a good time to replace.

 

Already ended.

 

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Mine rode pretty good at 162k miles on the shocks but now it is much more stable in the bumps and dips.