New Mexico Owners BS Thread

DAT suspension in abq does shock stuff. king, fox, etc. seems like they are the go to in down. I’ve never used them cause I think my king 4.0s and other stuff is bigger than what they do but can’t hurt to give them a call

https://www.datsuspension.com/

 

I checked with them for Icon rebuilds, price isn’t bad and they said they can do it.

 

Mind messaging me what they told you? Girlfriends sema truck has icons and needs a rebuild so I can sell them and switch to kings but I only touch king stuff. So don’t wanna mess with them.

 

It has been years, but I have used the shop on base and they are limited. The one at Davis-Monthan in Tucson had 10 bays and all the kit.

 

I'm jealous but the one here doesn't seem bad. They have around 7 bays, most of which have lifts. Don't know what kind of tools they have on hand.

 

I forgot to mention they had a huge welding bay too. Honestly, I would personally visit the one here to see what they have.

 

Curious also about the price for a rebuild. I have Icons on my 4Runner and My right front shock is starting to leak it's going to need a rebuild soon.

 

I'm going this afternoon to get assistance with the coilovers so I'll be able to check out what all they provide.

 

I’m anal about things so I told them I would provide the kits and oil. They would provide nitrogen and labor. It was in the neighborhood of $500. Still haven’t got around to it. Think I’m gonna try myself just to learn how and then take them to a bike shop for nitro

 

Might be having a senior moment but I think Accessories Unlimited has a spring compressor.

 

Where's that? ABQ or Alamogordo?

However, I did succeed in swapping. The base shop does have a wall-mounted compressor but they thought it wouldn't work. I rented some strut compressors from Autozone but there wasn't enough of a gap between the strut and the spring so only one of the compressors was able to grip it. The other began to slip and was looking mighty spooky so I called a knock it off and abandoned those. We gave the wall-mounted one a go and it worked. Bit of a pain to line everything up but it was secure.

Removing the springs is actually really easy once compressed. Lift the spring seat up and two halves of a silver clip will be exposed and can be removed. Then the seat falls off the strut, decompress the spring, and remove. Reverse for the new ones. I will say 14" was pushing it. There's a bridge for the top arms that compress that can run into the shock hat.

Took maybe 10 minutes per coilover. Cost $10 bucks for 2 hours of time. Gonna try to put it all together tonight with a rough alignment. Soon as my rough country speedometer calibrator arrives, time for new wheels and tires with a real alignment.

 

Albuquerque.

 

Damn. Hell of a drive.

Everything is back on the truck and torqued down. Feel like I need to increase the preload a bit, maybe also get a spacer for the driver side for that damn taco lean. Test drive felt fine; no new vibrations or sounds.

 

This still happening boys?

 

Aren’t your coilovers adjustable? If so then there’s no need for a spacer.

 

I’m with PcBuilder on this one. I actually spoke to Accutune Offroad when they revalved and rebuilt my coilovers about the taco lean. They 100% recommend more preload on the drivers side coilovers and not to run spacers.

 

Sure is I think I may be over there a little earlier around 4:30 or so.

 

Yeah, I overdid my adjustment it seems. My driver side is sitting .5” higher right now.

 

Alright NM kids, I got my shock relocate burned in and now I have these KING 25001-121A D/S OEM Performance Shocks to get rid of.



They are ugly and have 70k miles on them and need rebuilt again. They currently have extended length shafts that work with expedition weight springs (All-pro expo etc) but it’s irrelevant because they need new shafts anyways.

Shafts are $85 a piece give or take and rebuild is $120 a piece plus seal kit $25 a piece, plus a gallon of shock oil $40. So ~$500 if you send them to Accutune. DAC locally may be cheaper?

Or new shafts, seal kits, and oil can be ordered and we can rebuild them in my garage? I have YouTube knowledge of such things.

They were $1078 new. I was thinking $200 for the pair? But who knows.

Wife is sick of looking at them. Any interest, let me know and we can haggle.

 

I think I’ll be heading to the beer meet tonight, we are cutting the bumper plates tomorrow so depends on how much CAD work I can get done during “work hours”. So might show up late but not sure yet