Fox Remote Resi Install

Hey guys,

getting ready to install my fox shocks and just wondering if there are any tips on doing the install. I would guess it is similar to the other shock installs I have done... just never dealt with the COs or resis before.

Also installing TC UCAs. Found a great write up on that though in the stickies

Anyway, if someone with the Fox 2.0s wouldnt mind posting up a pic of how the resis are mounted (i got my stuff used so no instructions) that would be awesome.

Or if there is an install write up that I did not find in the search that someone knows about... If not, ill post mine up here

 

How did it go? Doing full fox front and rear resivoir, Icon AAL, and TC UCA's this weekend on a buddy's truck.

 

Didn't get the fronts on yet

The rears were pretty easy. Took about an hour and a half to 2 hours total. Had to cut the sleeve off the old shocks to get a good grip on them to break the bolt loose. They had 90k on them anyway so I just threw them out. The bushings on the bottom of the fox were a little wide to fit in the bottom brackets. Used some dishsoap/water to help slide them in. Then compressed and slid into the top. The "order" of the mounting hardware was washer/bushing/mounting bracket on frame/bushing/washer/bolt. Tightened the bolt down until the bushings were adequately compressed and called it good! Then attached the resis to the shock using the supplied hardware. Probably going to mount onto the frame eventually. Just need to make a bracket for that!



Did my buddie's AAL too. That went pretty well. There is a good write up on here somewhere for AALs that we used

 

Not sure how this one happened, but look to setup the hose to avoid this type of situation. May have rubbed on the tire, rock, ???.

 

Not sure how that happened Deff going to try to avoid that.....

 

So got my Fox 2.5 remote resi coil overs on last weekend. Also installed TC UCAs used this write up: http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/suspension/14507-total-chaos-uca-how-install.html

anyway the install took about 4 hours, including a lunch break. Then took an hour and a half to two hours cranking the coils up to height. They were set at about stock and I cranked them to about 2 1/4 inchs thread showing to get around 3 inches of lift.

Anyway steps and tips:

- break the lug nuts and jack up the truck. Remove wheel

-remove sway bar bolt. only the one on the top. don't need to remove the bottom one. Remove bolts holding swaybar to front of frame

-remove ball joint. We had to heat it with a torch and then used a hammer to knock it loose. Tried using a ball joint puller but it was a pain in the ass. I wouldn't bother. just torch it.

- we then removed the stock UCA following the afore mentioned write up

- remove top 3 bolts on shock and then the bottom bolt

-wiggle shock out. kind of a pain to get it to come out but it did eventually.

-reinstall in reverse order with new parts

- One issue we had is we installed the resi mount wrong. you can see in this picture where it is:


It should be like this:


we accidentally put the plate between the frame and the spacer that came with the shock. the correct order is sway bar bracket, resi mount, spacer plate, frame. Was kind of a pain in the ass to fix after the fact.

Also, we ended up removing the skid plate to make the sway bar easier to access. (none of this is necessary if you are just not running a sway bar to begin with)

After all that, I cranked it up to level! I found if you just start to lower the bottom adjustor, the locking ring tends to just stay put. Adjust to height and then spin the locking ring down and tighten.

Last, got an alignment. the toe was awful prior.



done!



Hope this helps someone in the future!

 

There was a good 1/4" of clearance with that hose.

I believe what happened is that the shock bottomed out and compressed the rubber bushing under the shock tower to the point where the hose made contact.

To remedy this, I've used a grinder to make a small notch in the shock tower to provide clearance for the hose. I'm also looking for a bump stop solution to prevent the shocks from bottoming out.