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

Bought mine straight from ADS. Tyler is great to work with and very responsive.

 

I second this! He responded to my emails the same day if not the following day. Downsouth Motorsports is a common choice too.

 

After my shocks sitting in the garage for nearly 10 months I put myself and my new welder to the test this weekend. I’ve never done so much metal grinding in my life. And yes, the zip ties are temporary. Here’s to hoping the welds hold

 

Hell yeah, man! Good on you!

 

looks dope!

 

I think you should keep the zip ties, might start a new trend!

 

Might need some heavier duty ones than those then. One of them broke when I was just trying to tighten them down. Complete junk haha

 

These would look cool
https://www.phase2motortrend.com/product-p/p2-ahcrd.htm

 

Those would be sweet. For now I'll stick to my plan to use Lowes hose clamps with black heat shrink because I'm impatient.

 

the heat shrink is a good idea.

I sliced my hand open on the tag end of the hose clamp reaching in to feel the pressure on my airbags

 

That's essentially what I did with my fronts except I used electrical tape. I may end up covering it with heat shrink too if the electrical tape gets gooey in the summer heat.

 

ADS Suspension For Sale.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...tacoma-2-5-with-compression-adjusters.760022/

 

Trying to put on my passenger rear shock, the lower bolt will not line up. The black welded washer (green arrow) is hitting the shock bracket.. It's blocking the path by like 1/8th inch. I can get the bolt started on the outside (picture #3), but its not even close to lining up on the backside.

The driver side slid right in without an issue.. Not sure what i'm doing wrong on the passenger side.

 

Did you try starting with the bottom mount? I remember mine having that happen. I think that’s what I did.

 

Yeah, that was the first thing I tried as well, didn't change it up any unfortunately. Here is the other angle of the bolt being stopped.



On the other side of the shock mount bracket, that black washer touches, on this side it has 1/8" gap.

 

it looks like the shock mount may be bent? Is it? A little hammer time?

 

I agree... It does look bent, but comparing it to the other end, it looks the exact same. I even pulled a few measurements and they were all the exact same..

Something is definately not square, i just don't know what.. I have a hard time thinking that the lower shock mount is bent, only because the truck has less then 150 miles on it.

 

If you have a long, fat screwdriver (magnum)…try to look head on and see if it needs a tweak using the screwdriver as a pry bar…Might be off…that may just give you the alignment you need

 

Exactly. Need to adjust the spherical bearing to align it.

 

You're talking the the actual shock right? Put the rear shock in place, try to align as best as possible, stick prybar/screwdriver though the hole where the bolt goes and see if i can zero her in?

I'll go try that.