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  1. ntm

    GEN 1 Help for rebuilding King bump stop

    Call king. They'll give you an oil volume for your particular bump size and length.
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    Bump stop travel

    It certainly will if you're working with little up travel and an abrupt transition to the bumps, it'll donkey kick just like you've got no bumps at all. As you explained yourself lowering the pressure makes the transition more seamless.
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    3.0 gold shocks

    Electronic steering is not a good thing. It's even weaker than the 6.2 racks.
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    Bump stop travel

    Mine did not. First step is to make sure you're running around 120 psi in the bumps. More than that upsets the rear.
  5. ntm

    Bump stop travel

    Either the ready lift is using a 4" stroke bump, or they're mounted too low and limiting travel. If they are 4" stroke, take them apart and make the spacer 1.5" longer.
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    Bump stop travel

    With a typical setup, you'll be fine with 2" at 200 psi. Most guys with 2.5's run theirs at 120 psi. If you feel better modifying them, it's pretty simple, just disassemble and cut as much off of the spacer as you'd like to gain in travel.
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    ICON vs Fox 3.0

    Because the king 3.0's are even narrower in focus than the icons. You can tune them for one type of terrain and speed, and that's it. The new ibp option for the Kings is a work around on fox's internal bypass patents, but doesn't seem to work as well. If you can only have a coil over up front...
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    ICON vs Fox 3.0

    I was originally running a full set of icons. The Icon coilover performed poorly enough that I dropped another $2400 on a set of fox coilovers, which were a big improvement. To be fair, the icon coilovers work fine for somebody running smooth freeways and sandy rolling terrain. It's the high...
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    Bypass rack - 3.5s or 4.0s???

    You'd likely not be able to tell the difference if they were 3.5's ! And still love them...
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    Bypass rack - 3.5s or 4.0s???

    4.0's are just silly for the application.
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    SVC 4wd Long Travel Coming Soon!

    Nice job ! Definitely a huge plus to have a jigged setup for easy install elsewhere.
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    New SVC 4Link W/Bed

    Any progress pictures ?
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    3.0 gold shocks

    I'm late to the party. The difference in performance between a gen 1 and 2 is going to be pretty slim when compared to a built truck. The 2 will be a bit quicker stock of course, but not hugely so. All I'm interested in with the 17s is whether they actually fixed the weakspots of the gen...
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    School Me on ICON Front Shocks and Install

    They're not going to tell you a competitors product is better. They will probably offer a revalve, but it will shift the dampers focus to one terrain type or the other. What I would do is see if they will swap them for some of their excellent 3.0 rear bypasses. The rear of these trucks require...
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    School Me on ICON Front Shocks and Install

    No. The main difference is one is a bypass and one isn't. A bypass gives you different effective valving at multiple points in the shock travel. The icon set up effectively gives you a bottoming cushion, but no different valving where the shock spends most of it's time. You get around this...
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    School Me on ICON Front Shocks and Install

    The spring rate isn't the issue as much as the damping. The nature of the non bypass design does not allow for a ride zone.
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    School Me on ICON Front Shocks and Install

    Before you install them, make sure you want them. My icons were so stiff at lower speeds that the truck did not handle sharp chop at 0-40 mph very well. It was bad enough to convince me to drop another $2600 on the fox coilovers, which were better in regard to having a wider performance...
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    Brenthel long travel install

    A fair question and you're partially right. A 2wd f150 certainly would have been the way to go. But a jeep ? Hell no, I want to go fast off-road. It's a slippery slope, I would never have fronted the money to do this kind of stuff without being encouraged by the incremental, but very...
  19. ntm

    Alignment specs for long-travel aftermarket front suspension.

    Toe and camber as stock, caster to 7 (on both sides).
  20. ntm

    From mid perch to top perch, not going back to mid perch

    He went to an h&m long travel kit with a very questionable install, lol.
  21. ntm

    Front end clanking and rattle offroad

    Lower shock bolt torque and grab the drivers side steering rack output shaft and see if you have any vertical play, a little slop there makes a lot of noise.
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    Shock will not fully extend

    They probably replaced shafts and some other hardware. Still a bend over deal.
  23. ntm

    Shock will not fully extend

    Big dawg diesel does. Think they're out of Calgary.
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    Shock will not fully extend

    If it won't extend, the ifp is bottomed before the shock shaft has extended all the way. This can only happen if it's low on oil from leaking or not being filled and bled properly in the first place. It needs to be rebuilt.
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    King coilover question

    The electric racks are the biggest issue with the conversions, they're very fragile and don't deal well with big tires, high speeds and vertical loads.

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