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 Post subject: Re: My winter project
PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:59 pm 
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Mike's internet is messed up. He strongly recomends that you save your money and get some Fox's or Kings

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 Post subject: Re: My winter project
PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:01 pm 
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Thats good to know, Thanks DVS1

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 Post subject: Re: My winter project
PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:40 pm 
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DVS1 wrote:
Mike's internet is messed up. He strongly recomends that you save your money and get some Fox's or Kings

Are you having problems with them... I can't find too many reviews on them.

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 Post subject: Re: My winter project
PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:22 pm 
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I'm back. I fired my old incompentent ISP for a new incompentant ISP, you just can't win.

I only have 4 or 5 rides on my shocks so no noticable problems except they #@cked up the spring rates so it's kinda stiff.
My biggest problem is how things fit, quality control and workmanship, or the lack there of.
I was the first to get their "new" piggy back coil-overs in a 10" stroke. Nothing fit right, 3 of 4 heim bearings fit real loose in their bore, and if it starts out loose, it aint getting any better. Also worth noting, when the heims were installed someone first installed a c-clip and then with a press tried to shove the bearing through the clip from the other side to the point where you can see the aluminum push ahead of the c-clip.
The stantion used to attach the resevoir to the shock body was incorrectly designed. The resevoir was placed too close to the spring and spring divider. If I haden't noticed it before the first ride, I would have destroyed both.
They use heim spacers, 2 of the 4 sets were the same length which is kinda important when you build a double shear set up. NONE of the spacers were de-burred. You couldn't slide a 1/2" bolt through any of them. In fact nothing was de-burred, the way it came off the machine that's the way it went together. This was ALL on the first set of shocks they sent me.
Now this guy knows I'm a machinist, he knows your not going to BS me on fit and finish so you would think they would be extra carefull with the replacement shocks, NOT.
On the second set of shocks 1 of 4 heims slid without resistance in their bore, not right. The heim spacers were all different lengths, in fact one of them looked like it had gotten spit out of the machine, rolled over to the interstate highway, got run over by every tractor trailer for an hour or so untill Hose A, or was it Hose B went out and picked it up only to install it on my shock. They did correct the resevoir clearence issue. And nothing had been de-burred This are all external issues, something that should be noticed by someone. What I'm conserned about are the #@ck-ups I can't see.
All I know for a fact is someone has a boat load of money tied up in CNC machines and equipment necessary to build shocks and the muts working there aint worth the bus fair needed to ship their asses back to Mexico.

BUYER BEWARE

I still have the first set of shocks they sent me. I don't think I'm sending them back, I think I might need the parts.


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 Post subject: Re: My winter project
PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:12 pm 
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That sucks just looked at a set guess I'll have to save up for fox or king. Oh well, sorry about you havin to be the guinea pig!! :twisted: :lol:

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