Rebuildable shocks....Slee, Icon, Radflo...etc

[devo]

i need new shocks for my 80. I want to use shocks other than OME.

Who has experience with these rebuildable shocks? Is it a pain in the ass to send them back every so often to have them refreshed? There is cost and down time involved. I realize that my driving habits will determine when a shock is due to be rebuilt. I'm just used to haveing a new set of shocks available when the old ones get tossed.
I know that with the shocks I mentioned that I will get better performance. I just don't know if it is worth the hassle?

Any thoughts on this?




devo

 

[cahill]

Don't have experience on this either but the same has crossed my mind. I kind of thought keeping the old shocks to put them back in (eventhough they are worn out) would at least allow the truck to be driveable while rebuilding. Ideal would be to have 2 sets of shocks - one ready to be swapped in when having the others rebuilt but that is a bit extreme and pricey. I don't know what the turn around time is on rebuilding shocks but I doubt it would be over 2 week?

 

[Atwalz]

I have Icon on my tundra. I bought used ones for front coil overs and new shocks for rear. They were on the truck for 5 years now. No issues. I like their on road and off-road performance. I don't have resi.

 

[Corbet]

have not had mine long enough for a rebuild yet but plan to do it myself when the day comes. I'll have to buy a nitrogen kit.

 

[alia176]

Rebuilding shocks really isn't all that difficult, just need the Nitrogen bottle and different shim stacks if you want to re-valve. Poly performance used to sell the whole kit IIRC.

 

[the stig]

Anyone know a round about price to send them off and get them rebuilt? For the price of some of them, I think the first rebuild should be on the house lol. Likewise, do any of these units have a warranty?

 

[chap79]

Here's the info for Fox.

Truck Suspension Service | FOX

 

[Mieser]

plus shipping....

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

@NLXTACY should have the specs on Kings

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[mrsleeve]

Been wanting to replace the crappy wearing out fast Rancho's that came with my truck with a set of 2.5 RR from fox, but really want to upgrade the whole set up to a 50mm Slinky set up so I am holding off on just doing shocks.

 

[NLXTACY]

So for King Shocks, to send them to King for a basic rebuild, they charge their standard fee which IIRC is about $125 on the 2.5s w/Res.

If they are purchased through me then I cover the service part of it and you only pay for the seal kit, Shock oil and Nitrogen. It's not very much. But with the King shock it is 100% rebuilable. It's not very difficult but boy doesn't it help to know the nuances of the shock before you try to rebuild yourself.

Of course revalving is different. There are three stages of pistons and all sorts of combinations for shim stacks for compression and rebound. It's a dark art.