Shock Mounts for Lowered Cars or Trucks

Just curious what others have done with your shock mounts when you have lowered your car or truck. With the factory mounting locations on a lowered car, the shock ends up at a steep (laid over) angle that makes them almost useless. I could obviously move the upper mount toward the outside of the car or move the bottom mount toward the center of the car but am looking for what other may have done. I hear of shock mounts that re-position the shock but have not seen them.

Thanks much,

- EM

Nothing.
Shocks don't change when you lower the rear end of a Mopar (with lowering blocks).

Ha! They sure do. Most rear shocks are mounted at a slight angle and when you lower your car or truck, regardless of what method you use for lowering it, the shock angle increases or "lays-over" further. Often they lay over to a point that they do not work correctly. 30 degrees is the recommended maximum.

- EM

See this is what happens around here when you try to help someone. It all depends on how you lower the car. If you use lowering blocks between the differential and the leaf spring all you are doing is moving the rear up higher in the chassis. The shock mount plate stays in the same position.

So maybe you should be more specific about what exactly you are doing and on what.

EM - You might want to crawl under your car to visualise things and recheck your statement.

The shock plates (and springs) get lowered the same amount the body is (Lowering blocks go in-between rear axle and leafsprings+shock-plates).

In short, it's only the rear axle that ends up higher 'in' the body/suspension, everything else stays the same.


edit:
Tree'd by the Guitar man

And some simple math (trig) would show it would take a considered distance to change the slant angle of the shock significantly

I'd be surprised if it's even possible to lower enough to come anywhere near 30deg.

No need to visualize anything and I'm not using lowering blocks. The reality is that while the spring plate that the shock is attached to does not move, the upper shock mount moves downward with the vehicle height when it's lowered and when that happens the shock height compresses. This is how the shock angle increases. It's simple trig.

- EM

I found the solution I was after.

- EM

and will/would you care to share this for future reference ?