3rd Gen Owners with King Coilovers

With only the sliders 600 will do great.

If you decide on skid plates and a bumper, you'll upgrade your springs.


Edit. See post below,, the 35s thing went right over my head...

 

May be tough with any spring option to clear true 35's to avoid "little" preload. 3" of lift minimum, plus some cutting. 650s may be good middle ground...700's might be too firm of a rate. The slider weight is spread pretty evenly over both axles.

 

I just knew I should have kept my mouth shut... The 35s thing went right over my head.

 

So will a more preloaded 600 be “rougher” than a less preloaded 700 or even 650?

 

Your linear spring rate will always be the same rate -pre loaded or not-spring rate never changes.
When you decrease the amount of gap between coils due to excessive preload/compression, energy has less space to transfer, the coils are closer to each other and stack on one another- or bind on compression. Think of these now as a bunch of mini bump stops. So yeah a 600 with more/excessive preload can feel "rougher" because of this effect.

 

I edited my post, as that was a wrong advice for your application.
I was referring to standard kind of a set up, 2" -ish lift without extra weight. For that, normally preloaded 600 lb springs will ride way softer than 650 lb ones with less preload (kinda like my situation with 650s)

 

It takes me a while to type up responses, I start to type, then I get distracted by my work.
Anyways, keywords over here are excessive preload

 

Well crap. Wish I could find a clear answer on what’s best for getting most lift and best ride. Wheelers is telling me 700. I wonder what the spring rate is on my stock TRD Pro Fox.

 

So King said I'd have to pay for my spider webbing on both rear resis due to overheating. Wtf?! I've never taken them off road or got them covered in mud or dirt to cause them to. They have less than 400 miles on them and been mall crawled only, installed last month.

 

Wow. Can’t beleive that. Thought King was the “King” of customer service.

I’ve decided to buy mine from Accutune since they revalve them to be optimal and it made my decision a lot easier. 600lb springs with their valving sounds like it’s gonna be the ish!

 

Can't believe that Kings would look shitty so quick with no abuse. Here's the fronts. LH side is looking like the rears. Smh.

 

Can you take a pic of the backside of the resi? I know you've got to take them out of the mount but I'm really curious to see if the banding is all the way around the resi.

 

See you made your decision but thought I would ask anyways. Do you ever plan on adding weight to the truck up front and how much of lift do you want to get out of them?

 

I don’t really plan on adding weight no. Just want a stockish looking PRO with nice suspension and enough lift to fit 35s. (And not go long travel).

 

Personally I would stick with the 600s but if you’re trying to get some height on it then maybe 650 with less preload because it’ll take a bit to clear 35s

 

What am I missing here??? Shocks are meant to be used not look pretty unless you're a pavement princess...not judging

Here's mine less then 3 months of off roading use:

 

I just think his issue is they are practically brand new with NO off road abuse and they look like shite.

 

Sorry had to lol. But joking aside, it does look like you put them to good use.

 

Don't get caught at the mall with shocks looking like that!