50,000+ miles on Icons (1 Viewer)

[Willy beamin]

Today I received my rebuilt shocks back rom Icon. I took them directly over to my buddies shop for install. Everything looked great and I'll try to get some photos up here later on. Icon sent back my old pistons and shims, old mounting hardware (all in vacuum sealed plastic bags) along with the new mounting hardware which was a nice surprise. And new stickers. Top notch! Its the small details that get my attention sometimes. Update to follow

 

[RS6tofj80]

Aesome to hear - that's fast ! look forward to your impression on the valving change.....

 

[Willy beamin]

the rears are all nice and new looking. The fronts will look more complete once the coils are back on them.

 

[Willy beamin]

Post install and rebuild update
I've put maybe 100 miles on the truck since Wednesday after getting it out of the shop for suspension re-install and new shoes put on.

The first thing I noticed is my tundra front coils are silver not black which not a sticking point just different. These coils are strong. It lifted the front end A little over 2" over my existing 3+" lift so that was addressed by backing it down 1 1/4", my objective was not to get more height. It's there if I want it though.

 

[Willy beamin]

heres the new shoes - Cooper STT PRO 315/70/17 - coming from 35x12.50x17 Nitto Trail Grapplers.

 

[Willy beamin]

Here's how much space is now available for travel with the new springs actually supporting my vehicles weight. It does not sag currently, in a month I'll see if that's holding true

 

[Willy beamin]

Roomy in there

 

[Willy beamin]

The ride with the revalving and new coils is spot on with what I thought it should be and maybe a bit more. As I had mentioned in my initial posts I was limited on utilizing the 1-10 adjustments for the CDCV resi's - I had to lived in the 8-10 range due to the vehicle weight for my set up. I now have full range of the 1-10 or S-H settings. I cruised around in setting 2 yesterday for half the day and it was plush but not sloppy by any means, basically like ridingin a big 4WD caddy. Today I selected setting 4 and it was great, firm and forgiving. Cornering - my weight did not even shift (that's the coils and shocks doing their thing) and the small road bumps that I could see but did not feel. I'm pumped. Dylan and his team worked some magic like I hoped they would. This has been Very much worth the learning experience.
To give a full on report I'll have to log more mileage than i current have been able to do. I will update again and I need to test it out on the trails.

All I will say is if you bolt on weight be ready to learn about what else you need to do to support that weight. Don't think it's as it needs to be, you just might not be experiencing the intended ability of your suspension. If you think something's off about it then you're probably correct. There are no stupid questions, you owe it to yourself to understand what you've spent your money on and you need to enjoy it! I promise you the company that made your gear wants nothing more than for you to be happy with your experience and will be happy to work with you on how to achieve that. Your feedback may also help that vendor with their findings and tuning. Buy good gear from those who will support you.

 

[Willy beamin]

 

[kreiten]

HOLY S**T that thing is a BEAST!!!

 

[TexAZ]

Truck is looking great Willy!!!
interesting about the springs. I just sent my Icons in for service yesterday, my tundra springs were black. wonder if the new springs are heavy duty for a tundra?

Really looking forward to hear what you think of the new shoes.

 

[Atwalz]

Looking good brother. What is spring rate for front coilovers? constant or dual rate?

 

[Willy beamin]

originally the Icon LC200 coils were 600 lbs / now these Tundra coils are 700 lbs - good question on the constant or dual rate - I'm going to call Icon today and get an answer on that.

 

[Willy beamin]

Looking good brother. What is spring rate for front coilovers? constant or dual rate?

Constant rate 700 lbs not dual

 

[spressomon]

Am curious to see a pic of the CVs/angles at your suspension height. Thanks in advance

 

[Willy beamin]

i'll get you some - i'm running a diff drop so keep that in mind

 

[TexAZ]

Willy, has your ride height changed since changing Springs but dialing back the preload?
Care to share the hub to fender measurements.
Thanks

 

[TexAZ]

Riding a little stink bug on stock shocks up front while icons are off to get rebuilt.

doesn't look to bad in the pic. But the driveway is on a slope. Had to remove the mud flaps to clear 285/75r17s.

 

[Willy beamin]

Willy, has your ride height changed since changing Springs but dialing back the preload?
Care to share the hub to fender measurements.
Thanks

Yes - it went up 3/4" from before. The center of hub to bottom of fender lip now measures 25"

 

[gaijin]

Yes - it went up 3/4" from before. The center of hub to bottom of fender lip now measures 25"

Holy crap! That's a 5" lift compared to my stock suspension