Help. King coilovers rebuild questions

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Update: Talked to king. for these OEM performance series shocks, the seal kits that they send out cover every oem performance series shock. does not matter if they are remote resi, or not, the seal kit covers all their shocks so you Will have left over seals. Just match up the ones you take off with the new ones.

Also to make these "extended travel" you remove the 1/4" silver metal spacer. but leave the rubber bump in place. These are words from King.


So I currently have my first coil over partly torn apart.
I have 2 basic questions.

1. What part do I remove off the shaft to make it extended travel?

2. When I released the nitrogen pressure out of my shock some oil came with it. So I assume my internal air bladder has a hole. Or is it just a seal that's failed? (My dirtbike shocks have a rubber rubber bladder so I assume these do as well. I might be wrong tho.). What keeps the oil apart from the nitrogen?

The second picture is looking down the shock body. How do I get that part out?

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It doesn't look like you have the spacer in it. There's a solid spacer that sits between the main seal piece and the top plate. If you look at the king shocks diagram it's #17
 
TCMach said:
It doesn't look like you have the spacer in it. There's a solid spacer that sits between the main seal piece and the top plate. If you look at the king shocks diagram it's #17
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Diagram?

On the picture I posted. Look at the bottom part, the blue top plate there is a silver metal spacer sitting in it. Is that what your taking about?

Also King sent me the wrong seal kit. So my weekend job just turned into a week job.

On the bright side I can spend a week polishing these bodies up to a mirror shine.


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What uca's are you going with? I've got the same shocks and my uniball control arms limit my down travel.
 
I guess I'm just confused on why you'd need extended travel shocks if the shocks weren't already your limiting factor. What am I missing?
 
JBurt said:
I guess I'm just confused on why you'd need extended travel shocks if the shocks weren't already your limiting factor. What am I missing?
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They are. My uppers can flex so much more when I have the coilovers out.


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kolelt said:
I to have BR UCA. I'm ordering •Icon 2.5 remote resi CDC front and rear.



I think to get more drop you might need long travel kit. ?
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I just want a mid travel set up. I'm never going to need remote resi shocks. Just having some longer travel with stock lowers is what I'm looking for.




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That part is the only thing you can remove to increase your droop travel. It is a top out bumper, not sure if these can be made into extended travel shocks.
 
I will say that my fox shocks don't have a top out bumper inside. I never felt them violently top out either.
 
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