yep, I've put these through some good and rough miles and they've taken it like a porn Star.
So, you'll notice there's CDCV on all four and two of which are piggy backed (the rears)....that means these puppies are some of the few (for LC200's) before the change was made to remote the resi's, which honestly was a great move on Icons part.
Next You'll see on one pic that the top section of the piggy back is marred. Like Jaws from moonraker or the spy who loved me tried to make out with my piggy. These things were a PITA to get positioned correctly to where no contact would take place during compression (frame and piggy back).
The marring is from a failed position.
Rough learning curve.
Another downside to piggybacks is trying to adjust a dial that's on top of the resi and that's pointing due north, as in facing the belly of your rig. For this task I found Reverse camera mode on iPhone or grab your daughters little Barbie mirror and try to catch a glimps of which setting you're currently on and what you'd like to move to.
Those are really the only negatives I can speak of as everything else has been wonderful. The ride, the ability to
Tune your ride, the confidence in knowing I have great gear.
Why are they off my truck? I felt it was time to take advantage of the cold winter season and have my icons rebuilt. As per the Icon rebuild mileage table I'm there, mileage wise, and for the environments in which I drive and play in.
What Icon is doing: revalving to my current vehicle weight. Not all springs and valve jobs can support your build fresh off the shelf. You gotta use them, identify short comings, speak with the techs, learn and test the suspension. This is my first nice Offroad suspension system and I have learned that once you add weight, you could possibly surpass the intended set up.
For those that don't know, The CDCV is an external tunable resi that one can adjust for payloads or desired ride feel. My dail settings (1-10 or S-H) were not all agreeable with what I expected after I bolted on mass weight. The truth is I enjoyed messing around and tuning before I added bumpers, rack, winch, spare 35, sliders, Twinkies. With just my 35's and nothing else it was excellent. I killed my ride!!!! or at least the breadth of adjustments.
Icon states that setting 4 is basically a great balance point, which was true, but not now. Setting 4 for me is like riding a blob. So, I migrated to and stayed between settings 8-H or 8-10. I like a firm ride. And anything less feels just sloppy with the way I have my truck set up and how I like my vehicle to react.
Fact finding:
I called Christo and he directed me to a contact at Icon. Dylan is Icons R&D guy, a cruiser guy and an engineer.
So the ball was rolling now.
Per Icons instructions I found a local place that was willing and able to "weigh my rig". I called a metal recycler and they were happy let me drive on their scale (one axle at a time) to help me for free.
My findings:
Front axle = 3600 lbs
Rear axle = 3280 lbs
My trucks curb weight Total = 6880
Stock curb weight = 5690 lbs
That's a phat pig
I had a feeling I was pushing it a bit and that feeling was confirmed.
What's gonna happen?
Dylan is going to instruct his team to put an aggressive valve job on these shocks allowing a full breadth of 1-10 to be all mine again, add Eibach #700 front coils which are a heavier rate coil and should mate nicely with the rear OME2723's, change the rear piggybacks to remotes, new fluids, seals, new spanner nuts, because I managed to mangled those something bad during an adjustment, oh and new stickers!
These are beat up on the outside but still functioning on the inside and tough as hell, as designed I'm sure.
It's not cheap, I don't mind that and I'm having fun so hopefully someone learns from my journey thus far, that's why I'm sharing. Buy good stuff, from a good manufacturer, rely on good support, learn and move on.
Expected down time is around 15 days. I will update once I'm back on the road.
Typed on an iPhone. Pardon my mistakes, I Think you know what I mean.
So, you'll notice there's CDCV on all four and two of which are piggy backed (the rears)....that means these puppies are some of the few (for LC200's) before the change was made to remote the resi's, which honestly was a great move on Icons part.
Next You'll see on one pic that the top section of the piggy back is marred. Like Jaws from moonraker or the spy who loved me tried to make out with my piggy. These things were a PITA to get positioned correctly to where no contact would take place during compression (frame and piggy back).
The marring is from a failed position.
Rough learning curve.
Another downside to piggybacks is trying to adjust a dial that's on top of the resi and that's pointing due north, as in facing the belly of your rig. For this task I found Reverse camera mode on iPhone or grab your daughters little Barbie mirror and try to catch a glimps of which setting you're currently on and what you'd like to move to.
Those are really the only negatives I can speak of as everything else has been wonderful. The ride, the ability to
Tune your ride, the confidence in knowing I have great gear.
Why are they off my truck? I felt it was time to take advantage of the cold winter season and have my icons rebuilt. As per the Icon rebuild mileage table I'm there, mileage wise, and for the environments in which I drive and play in.
What Icon is doing: revalving to my current vehicle weight. Not all springs and valve jobs can support your build fresh off the shelf. You gotta use them, identify short comings, speak with the techs, learn and test the suspension. This is my first nice Offroad suspension system and I have learned that once you add weight, you could possibly surpass the intended set up.
For those that don't know, The CDCV is an external tunable resi that one can adjust for payloads or desired ride feel. My dail settings (1-10 or S-H) were not all agreeable with what I expected after I bolted on mass weight. The truth is I enjoyed messing around and tuning before I added bumpers, rack, winch, spare 35, sliders, Twinkies. With just my 35's and nothing else it was excellent. I killed my ride!!!! or at least the breadth of adjustments.
Icon states that setting 4 is basically a great balance point, which was true, but not now. Setting 4 for me is like riding a blob. So, I migrated to and stayed between settings 8-H or 8-10. I like a firm ride. And anything less feels just sloppy with the way I have my truck set up and how I like my vehicle to react.
Fact finding:
I called Christo and he directed me to a contact at Icon. Dylan is Icons R&D guy, a cruiser guy and an engineer.
So the ball was rolling now.
Per Icons instructions I found a local place that was willing and able to "weigh my rig". I called a metal recycler and they were happy let me drive on their scale (one axle at a time) to help me for free.
My findings:
Front axle = 3600 lbs
Rear axle = 3280 lbs
My trucks curb weight Total = 6880
Stock curb weight = 5690 lbs
That's a phat pig
I had a feeling I was pushing it a bit and that feeling was confirmed.
What's gonna happen?
Dylan is going to instruct his team to put an aggressive valve job on these shocks allowing a full breadth of 1-10 to be all mine again, add Eibach #700 front coils which are a heavier rate coil and should mate nicely with the rear OME2723's, change the rear piggybacks to remotes, new fluids, seals, new spanner nuts, because I managed to mangled those something bad during an adjustment, oh and new stickers!
These are beat up on the outside but still functioning on the inside and tough as hell, as designed I'm sure.
It's not cheap, I don't mind that and I'm having fun so hopefully someone learns from my journey thus far, that's why I'm sharing. Buy good stuff, from a good manufacturer, rely on good support, learn and move on.
Expected down time is around 15 days. I will update once I'm back on the road.
Typed on an iPhone. Pardon my mistakes, I Think you know what I mean.
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