Makdaddynuge

I just bought a 94 civic hatchback. It came with KYB adjustables and ground
control coilovers (w/o the adjusting tool). It rides way to low and stiff and bumby as hell. So my 1st question is, what are the softest and hardest setting on the kyb shocks. My 2nd question is, how do i go about adjusting the coilover without the coilover tool? Thanks for your help in advance.

Marauder

Easiest way to adjust the ride height is loosen the spring seat with an allen wrench with the car jacked up. Then just turn it. When you tighten back up the allen bolt, only tighten it until you can't turn the collar anymore.

dantastic

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yup. my GC's didnt come with the spanner wrench, but i've never had any problems moving it by hand. "1" is the softest, "4" is the hardest on the shocks. i find that if your raise the ride height, the ride gets smoother. the shock operates in its more "normal" range of motion.

Makdaddynuge

ok i looks like the bottem of the coilovers have 2 collars that you can turn, which is which?

eK9aT10pSi

the top one of the 2 adjusts the height and the bottom one locks the top one in from spinning

dantastic

are you sure you have ground controls? GC's only have one collar with an allen screw to lock the perch. see the gold ring thingy at the bottom of the spring:




if you have dual locking perches (like skunk2's, etc), you'll probably need a spanner wrench to separate them (turn the top one up, the bottom down).

Makdaddynuge

maybe i have skunk 2, cause my coilovers have 2 collars. The guy lied to me, what an ***.

turbotime

yup GC = 1 collar

teknoracing

My KYB that i used to have i would run setting number 2 in the front and 4 in the rear. 4 is really stiff but i didnt care about ride comfort at times