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

Thats really good time being you installed it by your self.. Did you have to adjust your coilovers after installing them to get the height you wanted.?

 

Scratch that on the height up front read one of your past posts about the front being lower..

 

The rears took a hour or less. Super easy. The fronts took about 3 to 4 hours but I had to finish assembling my JBA uca and other little things. I ran a strip of electrical tape over the hose clams and curled the sides of the tape around it. I can't stand the look of those clamps on the re. I installed them on the bracket and put the screw part of the clamp in the back side. Then installed the bracket to the frame. Looks so much better this way. Just my opinion

 

Thanks for the heads up on the mounting for the re. All your advise has been helpful.. I'm no expert on this stuff but have learned alot on doing research and reading all these forums. Marie from headstrong has been alot of help also..

 

Has anyone posted any videos of there ads suspension on you tube or any other site.. it would be cool to see how it performs on road and off road..

 

I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have coming up. Just let me know.

 

Going to readjust sometime this weekend. Got the lifetime alignment from firestone for 170 because a old friend from highschool works there. Worth every penny.

 

Let me know how the adjusting goes cause I'm curious on how hard it is.. I was told that you have take the shock off the truck to do it if you have 700ib coils.

 

Shit I hope not. Supposedly there's a collar bolt on top and bottom. Just loosen those two up and my friend with 650 spring said it was easy after that @Otis1382

 

I hope it's easy let me know when you give it a try I still got along way before mine come in ordered them last week.

 

Didn't know there was one on the bottom? Just loosened the top slowly until I could turn it.

 

I've adjusted 700 lbs springs on my buddy's truck but his are King. Just had the truck on jack stand with full droop of the suspension. Super easy to do. Spray the coilovers threads with some dry lube preferrably PTFE type. Loosen the adjustment Allen screw and adjust away!

 

There is no collar on the bottom. All you are trying to do is spin the collar on the top. Jack truck up. Lube threads around the collar, loosen the set screw on the collar (not too much because the collar might jump threads and cross thread, then you are screwed). Spin the collar with a 5/16 punch, you might need 2 punches if you have resis.

 

10-4 so is there a magicway to know how much to loosen the collar?

 

No. Just loosen it slowly first and try spinning the collar. If you can't spin it, loosen it maybe a quarter turn at a time. It'll start spinning. Just remember, it's not easy to spin, even when the collar is loosened, so don't keep loosening the collar. Best bet is to lube the collar and threads really good, hour before trying to adjust. Lube the top threads and underneath where the collar will be spinning down to.

 

Just received shipping email from Marie @ Headstrong. Suspension is coming tomorrow per tracking info.
If any one is interested I could try to make a video clip of suspension install.

 

That would be awesome if you made a video it would help alot.. I'm so anxious to get mine in can't wait.. What set up did u get

 

I ordered the 700lb springs with clickers in front and rear are triple bypass with HS 3 leaf AAL kit.
I'm planning to remove my sway bar.

 

I removed mine, don't notice anything other than a little more gangster lean around fast corners.

 

Got my suspension today. Had to chase UPS around. Luckily 2 nice employee @ Aliso Viejo facility pulled my packages. That lady in the office never called me within the hour for my will call. I got there around 7:02, 2 mins after closing lady @ the customer service area couldn't even go to back room to retrieve my packages. She saw that it said 3 boxes. And decided to tell me they're still on the truck.
So I asked 2 employee and they retrieved my packages.
A big thank you to them.
I will try my best to did a vlog tutorial on suspension install.