Fox 2.5 DSC Suspension - A Brief Overview, Procedure, and Review of Proper Suspension Setup

[boogielander]

Test run in the desert. I LOVE how it handles the choppy and bumpy sections and the truck wanted more.

Adjuster settings:
Front:
Low speed - Max
High speed - 3 clicks
Rear:
Low & High speed - max

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[boogielander]

Going on a raptor run this weekend to test my springs.

last time a raptor came with us I ended up towing it out of the ditch hahaha
driver (friend) got distracted by his girl.

 

[Morenar]

@boogielander Question since you seem to have the most experience with the Fox DSC and your writeup is one I have referenced 100's of times. I have been messing with my settings for over a year to get the right comfort level for on road and off road. I came across a Ram 2500 thread where someone was saying they had their high speed cranked up to 6 or 7 and low speed to a lower like 4 or 5 clicks in and that helped with the on road small imperfections and still absorbing the larger things like potholes, etc. I messed with these yesterday on my 1500 and set mine to 5 clicks in on high and low speed in to 4 and it made my ride much more compliant. I went over road imperfections without feeling them. Is it possible to have the high speed set higher number than low speed? I always seem to read that people have the high speed wide open down or around 3 and low speed up to something like 4 or 5 clicks for on road.

 

[boogielander]

@boogielander Question since you seem to have the most experience with the Fox DSC and your writeup is one I have referenced 100's of times. I have been messing with my settings for over a year to get the right comfort level for on road and off road. I came across a Ram 2500 thread where someone was saying they had their high speed cranked up to 6 or 7 and low speed to a lower like 4 or 5 clicks in and that helped with the on road small imperfections and still absorbing the larger things like potholes, etc. I messed with these yesterday on my 1500 and set mine to 5 clicks in on high and low speed in to 4 and it made my ride much more compliant. I went over road imperfections without feeling them. Is it possible to have the high speed set higher number than low speed? I always seem to read that people have the high speed wide open down or around 3 and low speed up to something like 4 or 5 clicks for on road.

oh yeah absolutely you can have high speed set higher than low speed.
for me i only mess with low speed for on road because I needed to reserve some adjustability when hitting dirt, and maxing out low speed happened to work well for me while retaining the handling.

also forgot to add:
current setting with the new springs:
1 click low speed, 1 click high speed for the front. Maxed out both in the rear (simply because I am NOT about to go down to the floor to mess with the adjusters before hitting dirt and then my seat dirty LOL)
1 click low speed with 700lb spring makes it ride like 450lb spring low speed maxed out hahaha. i do get some body roll but it's still manageable for my driving.

 

[Trooper]

I have very similar set up on 2500 Cummins, recently swapped from 5 year set of 2.5" Fox DSC (front only) to the current 2.5" with front a rear DSC, all Thuren for the rest on mine. Drives well at factory settings although I do have the annoying clunk that I cannot find. Buddy has Kings on his 2500, there is a clear difference but both are excellent quality, just depends your use

 

[boogielander]

I have very similar set up on 2500 Cummins, recently swapped from 5 year set of 2.5" Fox DSC (front only) to the current 2.5" with front a rear DSC, all Thuren for the rest on mine. Drives well at factory settings although I do have the annoying clunk that I cannot find. Buddy has Kings on his 2500, there is a clear difference but both are excellent quality, just depends your use

oh yeah if i go up to 2500 (i mean, i've been saying I want to move up to a PW) then Im doing Thuren everything with the most aggressive valving Don Thuren offers and truss the front axle and basically throw the full catalogue at it.

The Fox retains better on road manner than off the shelf kings, but if you have a set of Thuren Kings then you can have Thuren to valve them to do on and off pavement performance nicely.