icon extended travel coilover help (thread measurements)

When I had the 650 13" coils that come with the icons. I was just shy of two inches on the drive and 1.5 on the passenger for 3 inches of lift with plate bumpers winch and skids.
Now I have 14" 700 pound coils With 1" of preload on the driver and less then an inch on the passenger.

 

Thanks! Nice build BTW maybe one day we'll meet at a tw meet and you can teach a noon some lessons.

 

question about adjusting these bad boys. Can I use a standard jack or is that not high enough? Also, do I need jack stands? Or is a jack fine just tuning 1 coilover at a time?

 

DCLB 1 7/8 drivers side, 1 5/8 passenger side measures 23" or 3" of lift and not overly stiff. Some trimming clears the 285/70/R17-33" Nitto Trail Graps mostly but I'm looking at doing the cab mount chop next. Oh, TC UCA's also. Overall I'm very happy with this set up for ride quality and looks.

 

The more pressure you can take off the coil the better. I just use a big floor jack until my wheels get off the ground.

 

Thanks for the input also what lube do you use to lubricate your UCAS and how much

 

So I've read some rather emphatic responses about the 2" rule, but why are there so many more threads above that?

 

Okay so now I'm about 22.5" on each side now & the drive feels a lot better and close to stock. The driver is lower by an 8th

 

What are your thread measurements?

What size tires are you running, or did I miss that?

 

285/70/17 I will need to do some trimming
About 1.5" pass and 1.75 driver. I'll probably re adjust after 500miles and then alignment to try to get it perfect.

 

But if you make an adjustment make sure you take for a drive around the block then measure. I adjust and ended up being high but after I took a drive it settled

 

Thanks for the info guys. It gives me a starting point.

... and thanks, Alfred, for starting this noob thread! Awesome!

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Canadiens 2 - Toronto 0 (after the first period) .... Even more awesome!

 

Haha NP it helps out all us noobs

 

Hope this helps....

 

I'm running 275's

 

What is your caster set at?

 

From searching the forums, I think I'm way off somehow. I'm measuring 24 1/4 inches front and rear. Icon 2.5 et no cdc or remote resi up front with camburg ucas. Wheelers HD 3 leaf aal and tsb in the rear. Showing around 1 7/8 or 2" on passenger side and have 2 3/8 to 2.5 of threads showing on drivers side to correct the lean. Do I need to go down and remove my overload leaf to keep it level and keep it from messing up the cv's or will I be ok? I do have 1" different drop installed as well as driveline drop

 

I wouldn't be to quick to start ripping stuff off. I'm running full Dak's in the rear, Icon stage 4 all around, and the diff drop. You'll find a LOT of passion around the diff drop on TW; I'm afraid to even bring it up. My front shocks have less than 2" of thread showing and I'm pretty level. I've contacted my installer (Toyota of Dallas) about this topic and their first response indicated that they didn't agree with the 2" rule. They are to contact Icon and let me know the answer. I have zero interest in doing something to my truck that will reduce its reliability since this is my DD. I've got too much invested in it to screw it up.

 

I have icon stage 1 with icon tubular UCAS, Dakar leaf pack. I did not measure my rear. But when before I adjust my shocks my driver had over 2 inches if thread and pass was almost at 2 inches and I was about 24.5 inches from hub to fender. My frint end was higher than rear. now after adjusting I'm at about 22.5 which is I believe 2.5 inches of lift and the ride feels so much better but now my rear is higher than the front, but I'm okay with that Its a truck. Before the adjustments I would feel any little crack in the road. I do rub a bit more with the 285/70/17 on but I will get a cmc soon and trimming done. Hope this helps. I'm at about 1.5" pass and 1.75" driver now. The driver side does have a little lean I couldn't get it even but its a off by an 8th. I can live with that.

 

I hope this helps. This came with my front extended travel coilovers non resi