longer isn't always better...
i'll explain, you need to find out whether or not the shocks you're running now are limiting your flex, ie. bottoming out or stretching out. That beig said, my method of figuring out shock length is prety basic, cycle the suspension and find it's "fully stuffed" measurement and it's "fully drooped" measurement, front and rear
a good way to test your current shocks is to unhook the bottom (or top, whichever is easier) and jack up the front end so the suspension can drop down as far as it can go, if your shocks can't reach into the mount, then you need longer shocks, but you'll need to measure and i would add at least 1" for extreme suspension cycling (ie, hitting a bump fast)
another thing to watch for is the body length of the shock itself, with a longer shock comes larger bodies, so you have to watch that as you dont want to bottom them out.
measure your current shocks eyelet to eyelet, compress and extended, mainly for comparison.
If you haven't lifted the suspension, i'm doubting you're going to be really needing too much longer shocks if at all, have you been having problems with them maxing out? if not, i wouldn't change them, cus longer will give you more problems if you go too long, there won't be any up travel, and you'll be bottoming out the shocks and ruin them.
getting longer shocks doesn't make the suspension flex more, it only ALLOWS for more untapped travel in the suspension IF it was being limited by the shocks in the first place... You could put the largest shocks you want on there and it won't make it flex more...
Ok, so hopefully i repeated myself enough to annoy you, lol
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but get out there and measure your setup and get back to us on your findings
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then we can assist more. but i would say maybe 2-3" longer shocks will be the max...
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