Bent King Shock Shaft

Yeep said:

So I sent one of my front King 2.5's back to them to get repaired after I found it stuck.

It wouldn't move and they called and said the shaft was bent. It's getting repaired and I should get it back next week.

What are some reasons that would cause this? The lift/shock only had a couple hundred road miles on it and One light off road trip that I didn't do anything crazy on....


I'm just trying to avoid this in the future.....

Lift is a 4" EVO enforcer with 3"-5" shocks

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jeepguy2014 said:

I know my thread count shows I'm a noob here but I've installed a few Evo bolt on coil over lifts at my shop and 1/2 been down on nitrogen.
I informed King and I been just checking psi levels

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JAGS said:

Thanks jeep guy, but probably should have left out "at my shop." Members can't promote related businesses without being a sponsor.

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Yeep said:

A guy I know that used to work for King said something about it being possible low on nitrogen too...

I didn't check the shock before I sent it back..... But when I did talk to them, they said the recommended psi that they send them out at is 70psi.

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Yeep said:

So I sent one of my front King 2.5's back to them to get repaired after I found it stuck.

It wouldn't move and they called and said the shaft was bent. It's getting repaired and I should get it back next week.

What are some reasons that would cause this? The lift/shock only had a couple hundred road miles on it and One light off road trip that I didn't do anything crazy on....


I'm just trying to avoid this in the future.....

Lift is a 4" EVO enforcer with 3"-5" shocks

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cozdude said:

I'm gonna guess it was your front passenger shock?

I would suggest you look into lower shock relocation brackets. When you run more lift the axle swipes more pushing the shock into the frame and causing it to bend. The brackets will push the axle side of the shock out towards the wheel helping to lessen the chances of it bending again.

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Yeep said:

Thanks for the info.... I saw that the enforcer kits now list including a shock relocation bracket for the 2.5's... Is this the bracket you are talking about? My kit didn't come with them..

And it was my front drivers side... But I guess I should now take out my passenger one and check it too..

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Yeep said:

Thanks for the info.... I saw that the enforcer kits now list including a shock relocation bracket for the 2.5's... Is this the bracket you are talking about? My kit didn't come with them..

And it was my front drivers side... But I guess I should now take out my passenger one and check it too..

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cozdude said:

I'm gonna guess it was your front passenger shock?

I would suggest you look into lower shock relocation brackets. When you run more lift the axle swipes more pushing the shock into the frame and causing it to bend. The brackets will push the axle side of the shock out towards the wheel helping to lessen the chances of it bending again.

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Mdrnizd said:

Do you still need to do the shock relocation if you're running a ProRock 44? I thought I had read somewhere that they've altered the lower shock mounts.

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