Blazed's 2011 Tahoe Build

[Modded]

No there is no way to relocate just the top of the strut.
The only thing that can be done at the top (before or after the top perch) is to install a type of lift spacer.

 

[Blazed]

Oh hmmm it was just an idea

 

[Goodinblack]

This makes the strut shaft push deeper into the shock and limits suspension travel.

@ Modded........ One more question. To combat the problem stated above, what has BellTech done?

On the drop struts, is the shock rod shortened vs. stock shocks?

 

[NORCAL SS]

any machine shop can do my strut mod to your stock ones. Your only going 1 inch right thats only .62 on shock stroke you will be fine. NOw if you have spinldes and do the 1 inch you will need a camber kit. My strut mod is the same thing as the mcgaughys relocators your just placing the spring lower down but my mod only will cost you 20-30 bucks.

I did spindles and another 3/4 of a inch with my strut mod and at 2.75 inches I barley got it to align in front. on 305 35 24 im at 34 inches in front from ground to fenderlip and rear 34.5. Not sure what your fronts at. With the pedders springs i was at 36.25

 

[Blazed]

He's worried about strut integrity.

 

[Goodinblack]

@ Tony. My front is plain stock right now.

I may be retard for asking this but............

Okay, so if I have the stock strut all broken down, I take to actual strut to the machine shop and tell them what exactly?

The stock strut has a raised ring portion right? For the perch to rest on.

Do they machine above or below it?

How far distance wise?

How deep is it machined?

Since they machine a new grove into the body, what holds the perch at the new machined point? A snap ring?

Sorry for Dumbass questions. I just never seen one done up, up close.

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He's worried about strut integrity.

And this.

 

[Modded]

any machine shop can do my strut mod to your stock ones. Your only going 1 inch right thats only .62 on shock stroke you will be fine. NOw if you have spinldes and do the 1 inch you will need a camber kit. My strut mod is the same thing as the mcgaughys relocators your just placing the spring lower down but my mod only will cost you 20-30 bucks.

I did spindles and another 3/4 of a inch with my strut mod and at 2.75 inches I barley got it to align in front. on 305 35 24 im at 34 inches in front from ground to fenderlip and rear 34.5. Not sure what your fronts at. With the pedders springs i was at 36.25

I find it amusing that you have supposedly been doing this mod for 6+ years and just now brought it up.
How does this mod of yours even work?
The front struts have a BULGE that the lower spring perch sits on, so how does machining an INDENTION lead to any amount of drop? The perch will simply stop at where the factory bulge is all over again.
From what I am thinking, to do this right, one would need a bulge that is lower than where the factory bulge is. To do this, you would need to make a mark of where the desired new bulge should be and machine the whole shock from that point up. That way is the only way to get a lower bulge the perch can sit on. Then one would have to worry about a bare shock (would need painting) and strut integrity.
Your strut mod is far from the same as the McG relocator. The relocator uses a part that pretty much extends the bulge downwards with the use of a lower mount the perch can clamp on to. The Belltech SP struts simply use a shock with a lower bulge for the perch seat.
Explain further........

 

[Modded]

Here is the pic you uploaded of how the mod works:
The orange circle is the lower perch that sits down onto the purple bulge in the strut shock.
That lower perch gets narrow towards the top so that it can clamp down onto the purple bulge after it is lowered on the shock.

So how the hell does making an indention (the red line) that is lower than the purple bulge make a difference? The lower perch needs a bulge, not an indention.
Assuming the blue, red, and purple lines were all bulges, the perch would bottom out on the blue line first. That will lift the front.
If the blue line was not there (and the purple and red are), the perch will bottom out on the purple line. That will keep the front stock height.
That then means the only way to get the front lower with shock machining is to get a bulge that is lower than the purple line below. That is only possible by machining everything from that new bulge and up.
Is this making sense to anyone but me?

 

[Blazed]

I had never really questioned it before but I feel like we all must be confused because the way he advertises it it seems like a miracle.

 

[Modded]

I did spindles and another 3/4 of a inch with my strut mod and at 2.75 inches I barley got it to align in front. on 305 35 24 im at 34 inches in front from ground to fenderlip and rear 34.5. Not sure what your fronts at. With the pedders springs i was at 36.25......

To add on to this:
With my Pedders coils, my front end was lower than it is right now. Right now I have 2.75" of drop with 305 30 26. With Pedders I had 2.4" front drop and a 275 55 20 tire so I was lower to the ground with the Pedders, but have less fender gap with the 26s.
36.25 is pretty much stock height.
Second, I am dropped .75" from the strut on top of 2" of spindle drop and aligned fine. I could drop down to the full 2" of strut drop and align fine. So your alignment woes are either due to the taller Belltech spindle not liking being combined with a strut drop, or some separate problem.