Houston area (along with DB's not from Houston) BS thread

See! No escape, just eliminating the competition.

 

Lol
I earned my degree so could afford both.

 

well after that he had to flee the country

 

That's pretty cool! Lol

 

Kids$$$ >>>>> Degree$$$

 

That's why I'm still working towards more degrees. MBA and then PE license

Now I have an employer to pay for my MBA

 

I think the Kings are prettier
and the Icon guys and Jambo were kinda douchy..

 

Tuff Country

 

Is that as opposed to a dick yanker?

 

KINGS

 

@tex how do you feel about @phillstill question

 

@phillstill defiantly needs to go with Kings. Or if he is dead set on Icon then buy mine and I will go buy some Kings.

 

They are not much better dealing with them over the phone for warranty work.

 

Details

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icons .. f u all

 

I don't know. The new OME BP51 kit from Toytec is tempting. Coilivers, rear shocks with resi's, and Dakars for $3200

 

Fluffer

 

My icons failed after 10k miles and puked fluid all over my garage. Was given 2 ship dates and was told I would have them on a Friday. I took that day off work since I had to sign for it so I had my truck apart waiting for FedEx and didnt get them. Called and got told they were going out that day for Saturday delivery. They finally got to me after I called them 3 times.
Another guy I know had his fail in about the same miles so it does not give me a lot of confidence that these will last.
If I had it to do over again I would go with Toytec BOSS, Kings or Radflo.

Let's not forget to mention the $40 I had to pay to ship them out there and the $100 for an alignment.

 

BP-51's

 

I'm on my second set of Icons and once ran SAWs, and if I hadn't scored a great deal on my current icons used, I would have gone with radflo. The reason why? The shaft of the shock appears not to be chromed. They have some fancy cool sounding name for it, but it looks like they have a process I know as QPQ (quench polish quench) done to them. The best way I can describe it is it's almost like a anodizing process for carbon steel. I run a facility that builds and repairs hydraulic components for the oil field, and I'm constantly surprised how easily hard chromed 4130 components are damaged. Recently several OEM manufacturers of O&G equipment have started going to QPQ, and we are in the process of converting as well. The tests we've run show this stuff blows chrome plating out of the water. What kills shafts shocks the fastest is pitting that then tears up the elastomer seals. QPQ is like 10 times more resistant to pitting than hard chrome