ADS Off-Road Racing Shocks - Information, Pictures, & BS Thread

Ill measure the next time I have the truck up on a jack. But here is a silly video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA82THWcNQ4&t=1s

My front fenders are cut and Im running JBA Uppers, and 700lb coils with extended travel. The rear are 2.5 x 13 inch ADS in archive mounts, and my limiting factor on uptravel is the fenders (need to cut the rear) and down travel is my dakars.

 

Some goodness got installed on the truck yesterday, ADD 2.5s all around with some deaver expedition stage 2s and dirt king UCAs. As well as SCS ray 10s and cooper at Maxx 285s

need to get it aligned before I keep hacking

 

You did 2.5 on the rear?

 

yeah the 2.5” piggyback rears

 

Front shocks and Dirt Kings shipped today! Rear shocks are still 4 weeks out. Ordered everything mid-July.

 

I have something that may seem obvious, but I thought I would ask anyways. The only reason I can think of this would happen is the slight amount of preload difference from each side.

When I jack up the truck in the center front jack spot the driver side tire will leave the ground sooner than the passenger. There is about 1/8-1-4” more threads showing on the driver side. Does this just mean the passenger side has more full droop due to less preload?

I figured this was the case, but I also wondered if somehow ADS gave me an extended length shock on the passenger side and not on the driver side. I imagine they wouldn’t do this, but thought I would check if this is normal…?

 

You're really looking too much into it. The truck isn't perfectly balanced side to side. If one was extended and the other not it would be pretty obvious. Don't worry about it. Set preload so truck is level

 

I agree with @Wyckedan . I would bet a lot of money that the jack point isn’t the center of mass of the front end. You could measure hub to fender when both wheels are off the ground to see if the extension is different but preload won’t affect max extension.

 

I've been enjoying the ADS coilovers on my 4Runner so much the past few months. They were definitely worth the wait!

 

Just got the coilovers today! Smoothies are still about a month out. Ordered everything mid-July for reference.

 

So nice and shiny

 

Your ride is going to improve immensely!!

 

I know, I can't wait!!! Plus I'm putting on hammer hangers and Deaver U402s, so it should ride like a completely different truck.

 

With my 255's on 16" rims aired down to 15psi I can sail through desert corrugations, forest gravel roads loaded with 5"-6" pot holes, comfortably drive down rocky offroad trails.

What tires/rim size are you pairing with your new boing boings?

 

Going to go with 255/85r16s so I can continue using my Pro rims and also minimize rubbing and poke (although I'll need to add 1.25" spacers in the rear since I'm adding shock relocation towers for the 13" smoothies)

 

I dont think you will need 1.25, only because your tires arent as thick as my 315s.

I have a set of .75 bora spacers in my basement if you want to try those before you spend the money on 1.25s

The Bora spacers have like a 60 day lead time, so you will be able to beat that

 

Sweet, thanks. I'll pick them up next we hit the trails.

 

Just went through a full rebuild of my ADS setup. Was awesome, with help from Tim @TMFF, Tyler at ADS, and several TW members (@Digiratus, @drr, and @Speedytech7). Oh, and Matt at @M C M came through as well when we had a question...

Wrote it all up in my build thread - Rebuilding and Revalving My ADS Suspension

And also put together a step-by-step guide - Rebuilding/Revalving Smooth Body Shocks (ADS version) - for anyone wanting to tackle this themselves.

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awesome! how many miles are on these? happy miles or rough miles? haha

 

I've got mileage in the post, but it's ~88K for the TL;DR crowd.

Lots of happy miles in there, I go on a lot of trips...

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