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Originally Posted by Capnemo
I might be wrong but I believe the 4600's are stock length shocks, I just installed them with '99 stock springs. I think you would swap out the OME's.
Not sure how much lift the OME880's give If you only want to drop 1" or less consider put in the 1999 "tall" springs like I did. Did you measure your wheel center to fender rim distance with the old set up and know how much you gained exactly?
If the springs are new and just installed they may settle 1/2" .
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Thanks for this info.
Unfortunately I did not measure before replacing the old shocks, but then I am not sure what was on before. At least one of the shocks was non-genuine and the two did not match.
I've had the shocks / springs on for about 3 years now and they have not quite dropped as much as I would like.
I'm located in Europe and the 'stock' springs I can get here would be for a diesel, which is a heavy engine like the V6... I think part of the problem is that my 2.7 is much lighter than the other two engines so there will be some uncertainty regarding how much drop I will get... I should be able to get a cheap pair of new factory springs though.
The OME 880s are said to give 1- 1.5" of lift, do you know what this is compared with? 1996 factory springs, or the taller 1999 factory springs?
Can the front springs be shimmed up, like the rears?
Thanks
EO
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