Be careful doing that without taking the load off the spring! Not sure with the kings, but i tried that on a set of fox coilovers for my wifes denali and the collar jumped threads and fubared the threads all up!
that is exactly what I was worried might happen. I'm thinking I need to get the spring compressors and take that tension off.
I am still trying to get Carli tech support to take a ride with me to see if this is how my truck/suspension should behave. They haven't replied back to me since late August and I've left one voice mail and even spoke to one of the other techs who was going to give the person who I was corresponding with the message to call me. He never did. I don't want to drop names. I am still hopeful we can get this resolved as Carli seems to be a very good company making a solid product. I just haven't had great results myself. Initially I made the mistake of only engaging with CJC. All CJC could tell me was to lower my tire pressure, which I did but it hasn't helped with any of the harder transitions. It seems to bottom out as soon as I hit anything substantial.
if this is all how it was designed to work, I will attempt the preload adjustment, and depending on how that works out I will either live with it or go back to the factory set-up (I don't want to have to do that/ but I also don't think I can live with how bad the suspension feels). If the factory set-up (plus the Bilsteins) works out I will either stick with that or maybe have accutune or someone do a rebuild and revalve the Kings. Probably go ahead and pay to have the adjusters added to that as well. Not sure.
This is all just one big letdown. Hopefully others will be more aware of potential "issues" before they pull the trigger. I know that had I read this specific thread before I put down this money I would not have done it. I would have left my truck the way it was or I would have gone to Fox or maybe Thuren. I haven't read anything negative there yet.
I still have my fingers crossed I will get assistance from Carli on this so I can come back here and tell everyone how incredible Carli tuned King shocks are. If we can discover the issue and resolve that I would be very happy with the outcome.
thanks for the advice.