GEN 2 Shock tuning with KING (feedback and tips)

[an48customs]

Nice setup. I didn’t realize king did that for customers. Pretty sweet benefit. Do you have to buy direct from king.

Nope. They don't care who u bought it from, when u bought it, etc. As long as it says KING on the shock, youre golden.

 

[Peterb]

not to be a highjacker but can anyone recommend a king shock service shop out west, hopefully they could re and re and service fairly quick

 

[mbenhasan]

While some of you guys are fortune to be able to tune your shocks with experts and get hands on trials to tune kingshocks 3.0, this kind of service is not always available other parts of the world.

Some say loosen the psi of the gas,
Some say bring psi of tire down,
Some say keep the tune of the shocks as you receive them,
Contact kingshocks directly and ask them on your set up,

While that is all applicable but NO body can tell how is the ride's quality when you tune but you! And you have just paid a decent bucks for a high adjustable shocks so you might as well dive into adjusting them the way you like'em!

After learning the mechanics of it and with alot trail and error, i will mention the obvious yet not so obvious for a newbie!

I would like to invite you looking into this method of tuning king shocks 3.0 on gen2 raptor.

I have done a great amount of offroading and onroad.

Let me tell you what i think is an easier way to tune king shocks with-out lifting your car or removing your tires and on the spot!

The method is basically ( for the rear king shocks 3.0 with 4 bypass ):

1- loosen the bolt just enough so you move the pin.
2- with-out holding the bolt, loosen the pin outward, meaning allowing full rebound or compression, in other words go to completely soft ( allowing the oil to move freely).
3- from completely soft adjust the pin to firmer inward, determining how much you want to restrict rebound or compressing, in other words how harsh-hard you want the shocks.
4- once you adjust the pin to the desired turns. Now tighten the bolt down to fix pin in position.

**Note from my experience using them harshly on offroad and onroad these are sweet spot for on road use that can take bumpy roads too:
- rebound should be a turn or 2 higher ( firmer - stiffer) from compression. Because you want the tire to tuck in but return back to assure traction.
- increments of 2 turns is where a noticeable behavior of the shocks can be sensed.

** my current on-road setup
[ with no load in the bed of the truck] so i made rebound and compression equal:
-Rear shocks ( from completely soft )
1-Rebound short = completely open ( soft)
2-Rebound long = 5 turns from completely open ( soft)
3-Compression short = completely open ( soft)
4-Compression long = 5 turns from completely open ( soft)

-Front shocks ( from completely open - soft) = 6 clicks.

You can tune your shocks from there to harsher depending on how fast, how much load you got on the truck's bed and your preference.

I hope this is useful for somebody out there.