Replacement shocks

[Casique]

Seems like the ADS uses the same shock for front and back. The website has no front/rear option.

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[JTAZ]

I am using King bypass front and rear. I have no basis for comparison since I never drove my JT with OEM shocks, but the ride is really nice. I have run across reversing out of my driveway and down off the curb where both tires hit the gutter at the same time. The result is a bottoming out issue on the right front. Beginning to think its time to rebuild the shocks. If this is the case, has anyone replaced the coil spring with a King coilover?

 

[Stan H]

Seems like the ADS uses the same shock for front and back. The website has no front/rear option.

I dont think that can be the case . Aren't they longer in the rear ? Of course I never measured mine to see

 

[NC_Overland]

My Rubicon Fox shocks were good till I added bumpers and a winch. Good not great. They weren’t quite as stiff as I prefer but it drove nice and when you towed or hauled or hit a large bump they performed great. After I put the bumpers and a winch on it, it drove like crap and bounced way too much and started feeling unstable vs super planted like it always had. I put on a take off Rubicon LE suspension on my 2020 Overland when it was brand new. It felt like my horrible stock Overland springs and shocks that didn’t even make it 2k miles before I couldn’t deal with them anymore.

Bilstein 5100s fixed all of that. They made it ride like it should have from the factory. It took away the initial soft valving that I explained and preform great in all conditions and it doesn’t ride any rougher off the pavement or when bombing down dirt roads or across our pastures at 60 mph. To be fair the OEM Fox rubicon shocks did that too before I added ~350 lbs to my Jeep.

 

[MPMB]

Hmmm, and yet people are saying that you need different shocks for different spring rates. This thread seems to contradict that - the same exact shock on all JTs?
Or does everyone in this thread have a Rubicon?
I can find posts and private messages where people have said "you need different shocks for stiffer springs than softer springs" and so on.
Looks like that's not really true if people are all using the exact same shock on every Gladiator situation.

Rubicon shocks are bouncy on an Overland rear, a bit stiff on the front.
My stock fronts are leaking - both sides. (yet they still dampen fine up front, but the rear is getting a bit bouncy now)

One thing is a given regardless - the stock shocks are almost like Jeep batteries.

And I've read you just can't put any spring under a JT, yet all the aftermarket packages offer the same springs: a pair for the front, a pair for the back. Maybe a HD set option for people who drive with campers and all the overlanding gear.

It's a use-case scenario based on driver preference.

In an ideal world, you do want to match shocks & springs. I can only imagine a lightly-sprung JT with a heavy rebound shock running high-speed on washboard hard-pack is going to be riding on bumpstops lickety-split.

Then again... all these companies wouldn't be selling the same valving in different wrappers, would they?

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