Road King shocks
Some feedback on road king shocks. I have a 2005 Unimog U500 with Unicat camper.fully loaded it weighs 17,600 pounds on the rear axle and 9900 pounds on the front axle. It has a lot of unsprung weight because of the portal axles and very large tires. I ordered a set of road king shocks.
The salesman whose initials are "WH" recommended the lightest settings "A" on both axles despite my repeated concerns to the contrary.Now after driving 5000 miles across Canada and 5000 miles mainly through Russia I can say his"advice" was absolute ****. I cursed them every time the rear end Bottoms out which is every 1.5 seconds on many stretches of road. I am going to attempt to have them revalved this winter while the camper is in Germany getting some work done and upgrades done. Hopefully I will be able to use Hellgeth A very competent Unimog up fitter that specifically works on suspension components.
To add insult to injury Roadking refuses to release valving information i.e. damping contants to customers because it is "proprietary"
I should mention that Roadking has offered to revolve the shocks themselves at no cost except perhaps freight but at this point I have little confidence in their "Engineering department". At the beginning of this process I sent them of course all the weights and graphs spring deflection versus weight which should have allowed them to easily calculate spring constants.
To say that I am unhappy with them and unimpressed with their engineering is a gross understatement.
Charlie
The salesman whose initials are "WH" recommended the lightest settings "A" on both axles despite my repeated concerns to the contrary.Now after driving 5000 miles across Canada and 5000 miles mainly through Russia I can say his"advice" was absolute ****. I cursed them every time the rear end Bottoms out which is every 1.5 seconds on many stretches of road. I am going to attempt to have them revalved this winter while the camper is in Germany getting some work done and upgrades done. Hopefully I will be able to use Hellgeth A very competent Unimog up fitter that specifically works on suspension components.
To add insult to injury Roadking refuses to release valving information i.e. damping contants to customers because it is "proprietary"
I should mention that Roadking has offered to revolve the shocks themselves at no cost except perhaps freight but at this point I have little confidence in their "Engineering department". At the beginning of this process I sent them of course all the weights and graphs spring deflection versus weight which should have allowed them to easily calculate spring constants.
To say that I am unhappy with them and unimpressed with their engineering is a gross understatement.
Charlie
