Someone told me he kinda are softer and doesn't handle the highway as well as stock.. But I'm not sure I fully trust the source.
Can you confirm?
Can you confirm?
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I have Kings specifically to provide more firmness on the highway. They absolutely are and I don't have them dialed up. Plus, you can send them back to king to increase baseline valving.
When you say more firmness on highway is that with them set soft or hard on the adjuster
When you set them on the more firm side, so I would say hard. I notoriously go with firmer shock setting. I have actually exceeded FOX valving specs on a few builds for customers in the past. I prefer a firm sure footed feel for sure.
This might be a bit late, but the easiest way to remove and fit the shocks is to jack up the body to allow the shock a full drop. Then jack up the axle until the the holes line up and you can remove the bolt easily or slide the bolt in.I took delivery of a set of King shocks. I watched the videos of a couple of installs. The instructions looked easy peasy. I'll start with the rear shocks because that seems the easiest. Off I go to the parking garage with the shocks and my Halfords socket/wrench set. Removing the wheel, easy. Removing the plastic shroud - bl00dy hell, fiddly as anything. Pulling on the plastic around the wheel arch to remove it feels uncomfortable up to the point where it just comes loose. Getting that lower shock bolt loose wasn't happening. I had to go back upstairs and get the Milwaukee ugga dugga. Wouldn't you know it the only size I needed wasn't included in the impact socket set I had. The Halfords 24mm socket did the job but it paid a heavy price. I got the old shock out and was feeling quite pleased with myself. Commence assembly! Erm, yea. This is when I realised I didn't have all the right tools. The bottle jack that comes with the Grenadier does a decent job of lifting the axle. Jack stands under the axle for safety but the little bottle jack wouldn't reach anything higher. The King shocks are pressurised and took my full body weight to barely start compressing it. There was no way my scrawny ass was going to be able to compress the shock to get it to fit in the shock mounting brackets gap. I didn't have a way to adjust the distance between the shock mounts. I ended up using ratchet strap to compress the shock. It worked but it was really fiddly. Not recommended.
I've got a digital torque wrench range 17NM to 200NM. I looked up the torque specs for the 16mm bolt. There is a 10 stamped on one of the nuts so I'm assuming that means grade 10. The chart said 302NM so the 275NM figure from the Ineos specs seems about right. I set the torque wrench to 200NM and I spent 20 minutes trying to get the lights to go green. I wasn't successful. I ended up with the jack handle on the Halfords socket wrench with as much effort as I could muster and I think I might have reached 200NM but no way was it anywhere near the expected 275NM.
I never give up so I finished installing the rear shock on the right side. I'm a believer in loc tight so I'm sure nothing will work loose. I'm off to Totaltools tomorrow to get the tools I need before doing the other three.
I enjoy working on the Grenadier. Every panel I take off or bolt I remove makes me feel like I know it a little better. It feels like it's going to be a long relationship.
