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Originally Posted by aemravan
glad you got it sorted. I understand the pressure of making sure you have a solid rig prior to a long trip, but I think it definitely made you overthink and overstress about a lot of this.
I'm on Icon front and rear setup running right at 3" of lift and these perform significantly better than the Bilstein 5100's I had prior.
I'm assuming you were on the high spring rate spring in the front ? With the amount of pre-load you had pictured there is absolutely no way you were near 5 inches of lift so not sure what was going on there. Granted I have a steel bumper with a winch, but my total lift was just shy of 3 inches with the stock pre-load from ICON. I also have the high caster JBA UCA's and have 0 complaints about the ride quality on and off road.
Also, I can tell you that if you were truly anything over 3" of lift you would have popped both of your CV joint boots 3 miles into your first drive. Ask me how I know  (long story short I set the bilstein shock to the absolute highest spring perch but was using OME heavy springs and should only have been on the first perch, netting me a total of damn near 5 inches of lift and some mean Carolina squat)
Good luck and be safe on your trip, sounds like a helluva good time! |
I actually didn’t adjust the coilovers at all. My front is sitting right at 22.5” right now. I’m guessing it needs to settle. This thing almost never gets driven. Maybe once a week just to keep it moving. Sometimes once every two to three.
I definitely over thought a lot, but I’m a perfectionist and really like everything 100% WELL in advance to a trip. This felt like an episode of Roadkill or Roadkill Garage with everything giving me a headache.
