Koni question
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Koni question i feel like a dumbass. I just finished putting my front koni yellows part number 1139 together and can't figure out how to adjust them. Everything I'm seeing involves a ****. But the stick figure instructions show that I need to stick a pin in the adjustment slot at the top of it. Wtf?
See the silver part that I circled? If you zoom in you will see a slot. And inside the slot you will see some small holes. You use a small Allen wrench or a small bar stock and stick it in the hole and you can move it. It is recommended by Koni to have some load on the shock when adjusting. Also make sure this slot is pointing to the outside when on car or you will have to remove the shocks. It can get tricky positioning it to clear the coils in the springs also.
Also when I adjusted them I started at full soft and I ended up with 4 sweeps from soft. For being such a expensive shock, the instructions that come with them are crap. I had to some research online when installing them.
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Yeah I assembled them and then put them in the car. I put the suspension together without tightening anything. I then jacked up the lower control arm and compressed the spring/shock to where I thought It would be if the car was on the ground. I then made sure I could get something in between the coils to reach the adjustment slot. If everything looks good you can proceed to adjust them here. If not you will have to remove them and turn the spring/shock till you can get something in there. Looking from the top. Clockwise = soft and counterclockwise = firm. You should have a total of 8 sweeps between the stopping points. Also you will notice that it is easy to turn when you are close to soft and harder to turn when you are close to firm. Hope this helps.
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Yeah I assembled them and then put them in the car. I put the suspension together without tightening anything. I then jacked up the lower control arm and compressed the spring/shock to where I thought It would be if the car was on the ground. I then made sure I could get something in between the coils to reach the adjustment slot. If everything looks good you can proceed to adjust them here. If not you will have to remove them and turn the spring/shock till you can get something in there. Looking from the top. Clockwise = soft and counterclockwise = firm. You should have a total of 8 sweeps between the stopping points. Also you will notice that it is easy to turn when you are close to soft and harder to turn when you are close to firm. Hope this helps.
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I did mine about 3 to 4 months ago. If I remember right they didn't want to adjust when fully extended like you are describing. Just make sure you aren't at one of the end points. For instance if you are trying to go right to left and it isn't moving. Then try to go left to right. I can't remember where the factory set it at, but I would assume they would set it at full soft.
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I did mine about 3 to 4 months ago. If I remember right they didn't want to adjust when fully extended like you are describing. Just make sure you aren't at one of the end points. For instance if you are trying to go right to left and it isn't moving. Then try to go left to right. I can't remember where the factory set it at, but I would assume they would set it at full soft.
yea i tried both ways. I'll update tomorrow when I put pressure on
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