Rock krawler adjustable shock reviews?

[slodsm]

Anyone ran these for a while? I have ran rock sport reds, falcons, bilsteins, but haven’t messed with these. I’m in need of new shocks and I’m debating on biting the bullet and buying kings, or grabbing as set of these since I don’t exactly spend a ton of time running wide open in the desert lol. The kings are phenomenal I’m sure, but for me they’d just be bling as I am more into low speed crawling stuff and not hauling ass across the desert.

Also looking at Fox 2.0’s for the same reason, most likely a 2.5” shock with a reservoir is just wasted on my style of off-roading. Found a blown shock when doing some front end work and figured why not try something new.

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[Bandit’s Lair]

I don’t think a 2.5 reservoir would be a waste. Inevitability you’re going to run across a wonderful washboard section of trail in between the crawl sections and those shocks will make it a bit more manageable to go through.

 

[slodsm]

You aren’t helping me NOT spend 2600 bucks on shocks.

 

[Bandit’s Lair]

You aren’t helping me NOT spend 2600 bucks on shocks.

Im here to “help” any way I can.

 

[rharr]

I have the standard RRD shocks (the type in the video), they have been ok, I might consider the valving to be a little lite for my deisel. If you do go with rock krawler I would call them and order through them so you have them build you a pair with valving that matches your needs.

I would say they are good for their price point. They have made some design choices to hit a price point. (the piston bands are just white plastic, instead of a teflon band for instance, teflow bands are more common and a industry standard)
My shocks have what they called their diamond coated shaft (aka nitrate black shaft) which was suposta to be tougher then chrome, but I am seeing wear on the shaft that shows where the common rub areas are, which to me indicates slow coating wear. I have about 40K on the shocks. As a side note they now sell their shocks with chrome shafts so, i guess they also had issues with their black shafts.

The seals also have had a slow weep for a long time, not bad enough to do any thing but you will have oilly dust rings on your shaft.

I am probable due for a rebuild.

here is a short

 

[slodsm]

Awesome. Thanks for the hands on review.

 

[Bandit’s Lair]

This won’t help the $2600 issue but, I’m doing a hard look into Carbon Racing shocks as well. Looks like they’re using quality components and they can do some mods to them in house based on exactly what you’re looking for. Lots of options available. Depends on how technical you want to get with it.

 

[slodsm]

I’ve been looking at accutune for the king stuff as I try to figure out what I want. I’ll check those guys out as well.

 

[rharr]

If you are serius about shocks call Ben at Filthy motor sports and see if he can find you a set for your budget.

I know he likes Kings. but deals with all sorts of brands.

apparently steel body shocks are a better set up for long term durability (aka piston bands repeated rubbing on metal) Aluminum body shocks if the inner coating sucks can wear quick and cause scoring.

I had this happen on a Beta Dirt bike Sachs brand shock. Had to replace the shock body for a after market one that had Kashima coating on the aluminum body.

And coating quality can very from sub to sub the mfr uses.

 

[Free2roam]

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[caryt]

If you have the $ ADS 3 tube bypass shocks.

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