King 2.5 thuren

[19laramiehd]

Just received my king 2.5 shocks with thuren medium rate rear coils. Replacing 2.0 rear kings and oem coil.

Took 20 weeka to get but now that they are here i forgot all about the wait

 

[19laramiehd]

 

[Myfast70]

Nice! How big of a difference have you seen so far? Did you do just the rears and not the fronts?

 

[19laramiehd]

Nice! How big of a difference have you seen so far? Did you do just the rears and not the fronts?

Big difference in the rear. I started off with just the 2.0 kings in the rear with stock coils. It was good but a bit too bouncy. I just ordered 2.5 kings for the front. 9 month lead time..... i did 2.0 in front also with their 2 inch leveling coil.

 

[Myfast70]

Ok, so by the sounds of it the 2.5's are the way to go so I will just start with them. I definitely do not want to lift the truck whatsoever but with that being said I would potentially do a leveling coil as well depending on how the truck sits when it shows up and how I feel about it. I'm sorry for not doing my research prior to asking but are the Thuren coils any softer feeling than stock? Or has all of the ride improvements been purely from the shock swap?

 

[19laramiehd]

Yes i started off with the 2.0 and all of their suspension components sway bar, end links, track bar front and rear, pretty much everything that would go on.

I wanted to go 3.0 kings in the front. All i do is commute. 60k miles in 2 years. Thuren recommended the 2.5 over the 3.0 for my setup. Coils are a must with their shocks.

I dont tow often. I kept stock rear coils with 2.0 shocks just in case. Then they just recently released a medium rate coil for the rear with stock height. In the front i have their soft rate coil "leveling" .

This is my first truck. Thuren is great. Customer service and products.

The tuning makes a difference. I did level 2 tuning for the rear 2.5. The fronts which i just ordered are 2.5 with 2.5 tuning.

 

[Myfast70]

Truck looks great! Billet silver was my original choice then ended up picking Maximum Steel instead. Once I get the truck actually ordered I'll reach out to Thuren and order my shocks at that point. I do more commuting than towing as well. It is a work truck but nothing that is going to tax it at all. I will tow the occasional trailer for work related projects, small open race car trailer and potentially a 24' toy hauler in a couple years other than that this truck will rarely see anything near its capacity

 

[19laramiehd]

35x12.5-20 toyo open country.