make sure your motives are still "safety" and not trying to sell the kit you have.
I could care less about selling in this thread, take a look and see how often I get to hop on the forums... Not much... This is and always has been about safety.
The pic posted is to show the amount of leverage on the 7 1/2" bolt spacer thing compared to either the camburg or tc hardware.
So, you have seen the 3in kings shock setup running it with the camburg hardware and there is no binding or is the setup you claim is unsafe the only setup you have seen.
The Add upper arm set up with the either the Kings or the way they sold it in the beginning with the fox coil over and lift spacer is unsafe. The design of the arm w/ the 7 1/2" bolt and spacer is unsafe. Here is a reason why -
"As for 4142 HT it is a good material and I use it in some parts the bigger issue is design and leverage. You can easily outperform an exotic material with just a small dimensional change. Geometry wins over material hands down and that spacer is ******* scary. The other no-no in both those spacers is pulling a taper into the spindle and then pulling back on it when the other hardware is installed. It’s called an “indeterminate structure” and unless an EXTENSIVE amount of engineering goes into it calculating compressive and tensile deflection in all the parts in the assembly then you’re asking for it. In this case I don’t even need to do the calculations. I can see that to torque the hardware correctly you will soon dislodge the taper just by the fact that the upper nut is larger than the bottom. At that point it’s just a mater of time before the cam loads from the spacer on the spindle work the thing apart."
From what I understand, the truck that they inspected is the only kit on the road that has that particular ADD upper arm kit with King Shocks. ADD installed their kit on the truck as tested with stock Shox and the owner had Kings installed at another shop after the fact(against Jarod's advice). The additional travel allowed by the Kings is what could be to blame for the binding.
As Scotty stated, he has the exact same kit with stock Shox and has had no issues after several thousand miles and some hard off-roading.
The upper arm is not special on this truck, it is the same setup Add has been advertising and selling...
Just because someone has had the set up on their truck for several thousand miles does not make it safe.. No one, and I mean no one who understands the working of off road suspension would put this on their truck and run in the desert with their loved ones in the truck.
Again, please read above why this kit is unsafe in wither shock set up form...
