King vs. Everyone

Please post pics of your 1st gen running king coilovers (if you have them) and let me know if they're worth the extra cost. What lift can I expect once they settle? Can you run 33s with them? I'm stuck between what suspension I want and kings are not much more then doing the toytec "ultimate lift" or some of the other 1500-2k lifts. Please post pics or info if you have this lift. I haven't seen a current thread on this topic in awhile and need up to date customer info on products. Boss-$2,100
Ome-$1,575+UCA=$2,100
King with ome rear-$2,350

 

you can run 33s with a cheap spacer lift and rear blocks ($120 all in) or buy a set of kings for $1400 and drop panties wherever you go .. it's up to you really

 

Defenitly gonna do the whole thing just wanted pics of other trucks running them or guys that have had them. Gotta have 33s tho

 

Lmao axaxaxa

 

Was hoping some of the 1st gen guys running king 2.5 coilovers or toytec ultimate lift would chime in. SOS HELP

 

I don't have a first gen, but kings all the way.

 

Running kings. Ride is so smooth, but, not lifted at the moment.

 

Don't the king 2.5 coilovers provide up to 3inches of lift? do you just have yours low?

 

I don't have a new leaf pack installed, so I didn't want any bro lean. You could go up 3 inches on these, but I have mine set so I am just a bit over stock.

 

Nice I really wanted 2.75inch front with them and was worried they wouldn't provide that. 2.50in in the back with new leaf pack and billy 5100

 

Just soes you knows, I got 3.5" out back with dakars. And 5100s. So you might expect a lil more than 2.5 with em. I hear they're supposed to settle. And I haven't put a lot of miles or cycled them or hauled anything so that might be playing a factor, but they haven't budged. Seems like anyways by the look of it. I need to remeasure. But yeah..

 

That sounds crazy high. DSMS said dakars would provide 2.5inch lift max with billy 5100s. I don't want my rear that high

 

2.5" Foxs at 3"ish and 2" Dakar pack in the rear (4 Dakar pack + AAL), rear 2.0s

 

im running Kings all around but i am long travel so pics won't help much, but they are a great ride... worth the extra cost? depends on what kind of offroading you are doing and how often...

if wheeling quite a bit, the Kings are solid and user rebuildable... if majority of your time is spent on street and offroading is slow and mild, the cheaper options will suffice... if hucking the truck, i say go Kings...

 

Damn she's pretty

 

Idk I might actually be wrong about that. Ha. Not really sure. I was Just going off what I was at with my 2" blocks b4, and what I'm at now, also compared to the front. So with the front being at 3", the rear is a .5" higher than the front. I think the lift in rear isn't technically equal to the lift in front tho as far as lift heights go. I never understood that or looked into it. I just crossed my fingers and hoped it would come out level. Lol.

 

Haha that's basically where I'm at! I'd hate to spend $2-2,500 and hate the outcome

 

Can confirm, need a mop everywhere I go.

After installing the Kings on stock tires (255s/265s?, sure why not I dont remember now I got 285 now bruh!)


After 285s - not 33s (closeenough.jpg)


Neat little bro lean in the back still because I haven't done a new leaf pack. I like the Kings, but I have nothing to compair them to other than tired stock suspension. So basically a dead beaver might have been an improvement, I dunno.

Note, the rears are meant for "OEM" stock height or maybe a 1" lift in the rear (WTF?!) Sure lift the front 3" but the rear lower that ish to the floor... whatever. I could be wrong, but I'm not per internet.

I'm planning on either a custom leaf pack or limit straps or both, who knows ... I have no idea what I'm doing here.

Be sure to budge new UCAs if you havent and a diff drop.

I deleted the sway bar after installing, big difference (I'm sure someone here will call me a moron and I will die in a fireball, but hey leave a good looking corpse on the way out)

Some more sexy King shots (ignore rust, iz good comrad):

 

Kings have a longer than average collapsed length per inch of travel. The factory mounts limited them to only being able to put a shock long enough work at about stock height.

I absolutely think its worth relocating rear shocks in rear if spending money on kings.