wabryant

it should I don't think that 1" is enough to bottom out the shock if so Ill just have to go up another inch

onsafari

Actually you would need a 1" shorter shock which isn't usually available. However if your current shocks are to long there is a nice lower mount you could use to help the situation.........Jeep should just scrap there sh$tty shock mount design.....

jeepik

looks like that one side was ripped out

i would bet that 1 of two things happened


1.) you didnt tighten that bolt hard enough
2.) you went wheelin' before and over extended that side of the axle, which forced the shock bar pin to come loose, and eventually it gave way

in any case, i wouldnt worry about trying to replace it with a stronger one

onsafari

Actually this is a comon problem with these factory mounts. Don't know to many TJ owners who hasn't broke one of these whether on the front or back. It could be because the shock is to short or to long but isn't allways the case. It's just a crappy design and needs to go away.

wabryant

No I didn't 4wheelparts did the install but after 1000 miles i did a bolt check and everything was tight and no wheeling just road driving georgia has monster speed bumps

merfsiu

Just replaced the shocks with superlift on my jk this weekend. The bar pin on the JK is alot bigger than the bar pin for TJs. My shocks came with the bar pin for TJs so i had to press the old bar pin out of my old rear shocks and press it into the new shocks. Total PITA.

wayoflife

Are you sure you had your shock mounts tightened to the appropriate torque setting? This break look as if there might have been some play in it as it looks like it twisted/sheered off.

wayoflife

Although the factory bar pins are the greatest in the world, I would hardly call them "crap". And, if you beef up the bar pin with a BPE and not fix whatever problem caused it to fail in the first place, you're just gonna end up breaking something else like the shock mount itself.

wayoflife

The upper shock mounting bolts on a JK are not the same size as a TJ and they will not work.

onsafari

I agree if there is a shock problem then fixin that would be first but I know of quite a few cases where these have broke and the shock was not the issue. I do dissagree with you on the "crap" part. I think Jeep could have come up with something better than flattening out some tube on two sides and drilling some holes in it.

I for one am not gonna mount my $700 shocks with a some cheap low engineered crap like that.