Received and installed Icon 2.5 Remote Reservoir (non CDC) rears. Here are a few pics and observations. Am yet to thoroughly test drive, but a lap around the neighborhood felt smooth as glass!
The box arrived in good shape (as expected given I'm maybe 100 miles from Icon), but with one of the threaded shock towers poking through the side. Same thing happened when I received the front shocks a few weeks ago. Some careful threading of the nut was all that was required to correct whatever limited thread damage may have occurred.
Attention shipping guy at Icon: Put something on that shock tower to keep it in the box. Seems like cheap insurance.
Money shot
Didn't measure, but the Icons are obviously longer than the OME's they're replacing.
Ran into some trouble with the lower shock mounts. It seems somehow the outermost edge of the mount on my truck was a hair larger than rest of the mount, maybe from the bolt clamping the shock in place? With the rubber bushing of the OME shocks, this wasn't apparent, but with the tight tolerance of the Icons, it took a bit of "work" to get the hiem spacers Icon provided and the shock itself onto the lower shock mount. "Work" in this case meant some WD-40, some gentle Dremel work and some banging with a hammer.
Outer edge of my shock mount before: 0.765
Icon shock: 0.750
Drilled the frame using the suggested bit size for the reservoir mount, threaded in the self-tapping bolt provided, and I was in business! Drilling would have been easier if I didn't have sliders in the way, but compared to the fronts, mounting the reservoirs was a breeze.
Looking at this last pic, I'm realizing I need to do something about that surface rust, but that's a project for another day.
