Shock Covers

Being my first winter with my tacoma i've noticed my king shocks/springs have taken a beating and rusted to hell after one winter. i was wondering who has used shock covers o help prevent salt and debris from the winter beating on your shocks? i see a lot of neopreme but i dont have a lot of confidence those will hold up in the winter. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

 

The covers don't really prevent salt to get on the shocks, if anything it might make it worse having the covers get soaked with salt water. We have had some customer put a coating on the shocks, or use grease.... but it gets messy fast. We havnt really heard of the best solution yet, curious to hear what other have done.

 

that's kinda odd aren't they aluminum bodied?

 

what about these, can you comment on them? i am considering something to protect the shafts on my rears but don't know a good way. i emailed King but didn't hear back about these: http://www.kingshocks.com/products/parts/coilover-shaft-guard-kit/

 

They still get surface rust and the springs while looked to have thick powder coating wasn’t as thick as I thought and they’re rusted to hell already. As much as I love my Kings I may end up going a different route that has more stainless steel fittings. Also my exhaust is rusted to hell after one winter so any suggestions on a good stainless steel/won’t rust exhaust would be appreciated as well.

 

those look to be more of a rock guard from trail driving kicking up and causing dings/pitting from gravel. Icon has something similar but I’m looking for something to prevent salt from eating away the springs and other components. I may end up taking them off completely and seeing it down south Motorsports can swap out the fittings for stainless steel and coat the shocks and springs ina more durable coating

 

yeah that's what i'm seeing as well. a guard won't do much for you. i'm concerned with pitting etc from rock strikes and all that so these are possibly good for me if they fit. good luck with finding a solution.

 

Negative. King and Fox are steel bodied.

 

Definitely an option to have them with cerekote, although can be extremely pricey.

 

Those are not horrible, although we have had fitment issues on driver side. Since the shock is on the backside of the axle, protecting the front side of the shaft is hard to do. We have used rubber boots with the bottom left open for dirt and debris to fall out and have worked great. Protects the shafts on all sides.

 

To make hydraulic hoses with stainless crimp fittings will be roughly $150-200 PER hose plus the SS ORB fittings that go from JIC to ORB at the top cap and resi inlet.

Cerakote is a great coating for the bodies but all coil springs are powder coated, not any better coating for them that I have found.

IMO hit the car wash more often, coilover covers and fluid film are not going to cut it very long for the NE winters.

 

I wash it about once a week when the snowy salty weather is around and anytime I get build up but not much more I can do at that rate of washing. I have heard of this stuff called stainless steel spray paint and it does wonders from what I’ve been told