3rd Gen Owners with King Coilovers

Great looking setup. Do you have part numbers for your coilovers?

 

Okay SO to all you informed people out there, I just bought some used King 2.5 w/ Non adjustable Resis, for anyone who bought new did they come with the misalignment spacers for the lower mount? do they need them? it looks like the previous owner did not have them and the sway bar just rubbed the bottom of the shock.

 

I'm not sure what you mean by spacers, but you should have gotten a mounting bracket for your reservoirs that also acts as a sway bar relocation bracket.

 

So I looked around and they’re called misalignment spacers. They’re for the actual mounting eye of the bottom of the C/O, usually they come zip tied and pushed/pressed into the bottom bearing. Just hoping someone has a close up of them and if it’s two per or one or

 

No pictures of them but they are two pieces. The longer end faces toward the front of the truck.

Looks like these are the old style Kings, not sure if the mounting hardware integrates the sway bar relocation with the resi mounting hardware.

 

The Resi mounts to have the sway bar relocate incorporated into them. I guess my problem is that sites like Filthy motorsports and are a little less than descriptive on which parts I would need (my fault not theirs as I just don't know) but for instance on the headstrong site:https://www.headstrongoffroad.com/s...ional_Compression_Adjusters_-_05__Tacoma.html
if you look at the pictures it looks like two identical metal spacers in the lower eye mount. I am trying to figure out if they are indeed identical or is one longer or bigger than the other and during install should I be putting the certain length one on the front or back end. I'll keep researching just know someone here knows better than me.

 

Little parts like that can be tough to find. Best to call King directly. They will for sure have the misalignment spacers in stock

 

Any help would be appreciated. I am in the process of trying to order the parts for my 2017 but my local shop only seems to work with one vendor. I am looking to get the Kings 3.0 Extended travel with 700# spring and figured to put the (EL096R-P - OME HD Rear leaf springs 2005+ Tacoma (SET) - 660 Lbs. Constant Load) in the rear. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction to find a place to order all of this from and/or a break down by parts number so I can search buying everything individually.

My shop doesn't care if I purchase the kit elsewhere and I also just want to make sure I am getting the right price for this whole setup. Also, please let me know if anyone notices me missing anything. When it comes to suspension I am totally lost. I've spent 3 years reading on it and still don't understand it any better. If I've missed a thread with someone giving a full breakdown of parts I apologize in advance I am going to continue reading.

 

Accutune- their prices are competitive with anyone else AND you get their tune. Plus a fist full of cool decals.

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Definitely gonna be looking at @AccuTune Offroad when the time comes to pull the trigger on my upgrade

 

Thank you! Accutune hit me up last night and does sound like the route I am going to take.

 

would i be okay running kings in the front with #600 if i dont have or plan adding front bumper/winch?

also anyone running dakar in the rear, about how many threads exposed on the front to be leveled with standard length and #600

 

You need misalignment spacers for the lower uniball mounts.

IIRC you’ll need both 1.5” and 1.25” per shock. Call king to verify. But fox/king uniballs are the same size so they’ll work.

https://www.polyperformance.com/sus...rs-and-reducers/fox-2-5-shock-spacer-1-25-1-5

 

I would suggest running 650s. It's a happy medium duty upgrade. Not too stiff and it still leaves you the option of maybe adding like a skid plate or something small in the future.

Trust me, we always think 600s are enough since we don't plan on adding anything.....then the itch begins

 

I didn't want to tell you to go back a few pages, so I did it for ya....
Please read the article in this quote , it's insightful and makes sense. Thanks AccuTune

I started off with 650# coils, with full skids and sliders on, and anticipating a Slimline bumper. Without the bumper on, I think the ride on 650# coils was a bit too stiff. Totally doable, planted and controlled, but at the same time a bit stiff.
Life happen, things changed and I ended up putting on CBI T3 bumper +winch, still on 650# coils. At this moment I'm kinda on the verge of contemplating if maybe I should switch to 700# coils, but haven't decided yet...
So, around here you'll get all bunch of opinions on what's best for ya. But with stock weight vehicle, without planning on slapping bunch of weight onto it, I'd stick to 600s. That's my opinion .

Good luck

 

I’d go 7’s. Just saying.

 

We have worked with a ton of Tacomas, 600lb front springs will be great for your application.
x2 on article: https://accutuneoffroad.com/articles/coilover-spring-rates-for-toyota-tacoma-4runner/

 

Well, that is your opinion, lol

I believe I'm a bit too heavy for that setup now, but that's that's what I should have done initially, before slapping bumpers and things on my rack.

 

Right! Sorry for your application, you're on the right track. I was referring to @thunderhope using #600 springs.

 

I got them through Poly actually and yes you are correct I needed two per lower mount. But King told me to get two of the same for a total of four of the 1.5". I can link the exact ones if anyone is interested.