Wyoming B.S. Thread

Meh just have to put it back together now. No worries there.

 

Those aren't turbo headers!

How are you measuring those? Top of the top hat to center of lower bolt?

 

Yep. The idea being to figure out the length under the shock tower, since it all started with the Redhead's little incident.

 

I understand where you guys are coming from. Certainly, the big repairs are done. But I am concerned about all the little stuff in getting it back together. All the broken clips, stripped bolts,bent hoses and twisted up wires. Those are all 18 years and 195K miles old. I'll rest a lot easier when it's all back together and running.

Hopefully sooner than that.

They're not?

Per Tim @TMFF my King COs meet the description he has from King for their 'extended' version. From top hat to the center of the lower bolt hole they measure 19.5". So about .75" shorter that Dan's ADSs.

 

Meh. That shit is easy.

And I wonder however if the collapsed length is shorter on the ads.

 

Hard to measure that. And it's hard to get spec numbers from the manufacturer.

 

That's a lot harder to measure from a standards standpoint too. What's fully collapsed? When the shock rod is entirely in the body and the endlink is touching the body, or when the coils bind (ideally the first one happens before this but coil choices vary and amount of initial compression with adjusters does too)... Or when the bottom coil bucket touches the body?

 

For me, all this measuring is to try to understand what is happening to the shock towers. It is evident that the Kings are short when fully extended. At this point I'm not too concerned about their collapsed length.

 

Really very little left to do on it

 

I still think you're barking up the wrong tree. Nor do the poly bushings matter.

Interesting to know - sure.

Any correlation to your broken coil bucket in comparison to other coilovers - doubtful.

 

on roads like that anything would

Looks fun. Rainy here..should be snow by morning..Cleaned most the day and worked.

 

I think this is true. Im not sure you're going to find a direct answer as to what caused the bucket to fail other than the obvious. Too much weight and a ton of good ole abuse mixed with old age.

 

I made no claims about there being a single cause.

 

Inversion already? Flippin gross

 

Huh, neither Vernal or Logan seem to get it until January or so, but when settles in its seems to stay. Bitter cold times

 

Had a few at the beginning of October already.

 

Your shocks are ET per King. I can pull the last droop spacer to make them 0.25" longer.

King designed those IFP coilovers a long time ago, probably 98ish, and they generally are very conservative on the lengths for OEM applications. So new companies like ADS starting from scratch can and will push the limits of travel more.

 

hmm curious. How big? I wonder why yours has developed holes already.

Not really a simple way to do it other than patching it and sealing the patch.

 

Only reinforcement is sewing in more fabric and sealing the seams. Or better habits of tucking in the tent fabric. Mine had a hole in it that the guy used the same material and this glue you heat up and place around the seam. Looked like shut but was waterproof

 

Lol idk why I didn't see that.

And yeah by patch I meant sewing something over it. Could out so etching heavy duty in that area to help