What have you done to your 100 Series this week? (50 Viewers)
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What is your overall impression of them? Looking them up they are a pretty penny and haven't seen/heard that many guys running them.
How hard was the install?
installed a simple dual batt setup for my dometic cfx50
Took her camping up to Hermit Lake in CO
This is probably the closest we can get our
LX to hydraulic suspension again coming from AHC. The RAIDs for me are the best.
Edit: have you adjusted the discs on your raids yet? This thing has a “settle in” period of around 3,000 miles, after that the rebound and damping will be more smoother than what it was when you first installed it.
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Installed this (Raid) on different overland setup rigs like a 1HDT 100 series, LR Disco1, nissan patrols, ford rangers and a lot on toyota hiluxes, and they are phenomenal from my experience.
So far I like it. The only thing I don't like is how to adjust the dampening. You have to compress and twist the body/shaft to adjust the stack. I feel like I need to hit every bump and dip on the road lol. No off-road review yet, thats to come, hopefully soon.
I have both the front & rear set mid-way. So far its great. I'm going to be adding an arb front bumper and rear drawers/sleeping platform so I'll see how it does with the sway-away torsion/ome 865s. I might hold off any more adjustments until I get some miles on it.
Jegs. It was backordered for a couple months. Not a regularly stocked item for Koni NA.
Those are really good stuff, same suspension Toyota used in their LC200 in the Dakar race and what Arctic Trucks in Iceland put on their expedition rigs. FWIW, what I did before to set those shocks was to first turn it in the soft setting (zero°) or firm (720°) depending on what clients want and adjust more firm or more soft from there.
These things are huge!
Haven't heard of them. Which model did you end up with? Running quickly through Jegs it seems I can find Koni shocks for minivans, old muscle cars, and a Ferrari Dino. But I'm probably overlooking what's right in front of me.
It pulled family adventure duty and took us from NJ to Bar Harbor / Acadia Maine. OD turned past 185k during the trip, can't believe how great this thing feels on road trips. Saw a sweet white 100 at the hulls cove gas station, color matched trim and bumpers with black rims.
How’s the vline 2?
I've heard of these being used on the G Wagons before.... they sound very interesting.
I had some Koni Yellows on an old BMW and I thought they were very nice. Obviously a totally different application, but from a quality standpoint, I have no complaints with Koni.
I have an LX470 with an recently installed ARB bumper, massive 12.5k winch, Slee sliders and rear bumper. I have no plans of adding any drawers, but a RTT is in my future. I'd like to preserve the AHC, but I don't know how realistic that is. I am starting to look into a convention suspension setup and am looking into the Radflo 2.5 w/ remote reservoirs. I wonder how these compare. Your comment about these being the closest to the hydraulic suspension caught my attention as I love the comfort of the AHC.
If the not so tall height unlike the 2.5” lifted 100s we see don’t bother you, keep your AHC. With proper maintenance that thing is bulletproof and no conventional shocks can outperform the AHC in terms of comfort in my humble opinion.
The KONi Raids doesn’t hold nitrogas unlike the conventional and popular shock absorbers out there, it holds a proprietary hydraulic fluid (similar with AHC) that make the shock perform consistent under extreme weather condition (heat or cold) no fading (which is the reason why new shocks have reservoirs). It’s adjustability design is also what I liked, no exposed knobs to rust or seize or needs maintaining. Though some may find it inconvenient to pulldown the shocks just to adjust the resistance of damping/rebound, the engineers have a good reason why it was designed like that. If I have to put an aftermarket suspension on my truck first option is this and followed by OME BP51.
Thanks for your feedback. I'd like to maintain my AHC for as long as possible as I do think it's a pretty sweet suspension. My only concern is how well it is going to handle all of the added weight, but I know there are some things that I can do to fix that.
If my AHC were to crap out and repairing the system is not cost effective, it sounds like the Raids are up my alley based on your feedback. I'll definitely keep them in mind.
Thoughts on the exhaust?
Well I had to do some digging. I went to Koni's site and got the Raid part numbers, 90-5397SP1 and 90-5398SP1. Google led me to Jegs with the part number. It was a special order thing since it's not regularly stocked in North America. It took two months to get here.
