lowgman

I posted a topic on this board about two-three weeks ago :

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=705458

In the beginning of december, I installed a set of tokico blue shocks and tokico springs. It was advertised as a 1.5" drop, but after I installed it, the fronts barely dropped 1/2" and the rears dropped about 1".

It's been 1500 miles and about 3.5 weeks, and they have not settled much. It might be about about 1/8" of an inch lower, but nothing noticable to the eye.

One thing I've noticed a little funny was that the top of the shock shaft is completely flush with the locknut on the top :



I was worried that I put together the strut assembly wrong, so I took it apart today.

AFter taking it apart, I realized that there is NO WAY that shock shaft is going to come up anymore than what you guys see in the picture. The washer plate that goes right ontop of the bump stop stops the shock shaft from coming up any higher than what you guys see in the picture.

I just wanted to know if this is normal, I've checked out tons and tons of engine bay pictures and I've noticed that everyone's shock shaft is sticking out of the locknut on the top.

I will try to post more pictures of the suspension parts tommorow. I know I'm not that great at explaining these things


Thanks!

Ekay

Well since we have practically the same car, I'll go check mine.

Edit: Mine sticks up about 1/2 inch over your's. Odd.

Evs-One

that will not effect ride height tho

I am guessing you added and extra washer on accident

lowgman

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Edit: Mine sticks up about 1/2 inch over your's. Odd.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Thanks for checking that up for me! Yeah, I've looked at tons of engine bay pics on the net and every one of them have the shock shaft sticking out of the locknut by at LEAST 2-3 threads... Some have it sticking out by only a couple millimeters.

I will take more pics tommorow morning.

lowgman

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Emerika &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">that will not effect ride height tho

I am guessing you added and extra washer on accident</TD></TR></TABLE>

Actually, you are right, I thought of that already. If the shaft is sticking out more or less, the springs would still compress the same amount. I was just hoping that I was wrong about that. But I still would like to find out why mine is different from everyone elses. THanks!

EDIT:

From memory, this is the order of the washers, parts, etc....

From the bottom up :

Bumpstop
Bumpstop washer plate
Dust Cover
Dust Cover Plate
Rubber Bushing
Little metal tube thing &lt;- no idea what it's called
Rubber bushing
Washer
Locknut

Evs-One

I'm guessing you added an extra washer between the bottom top hat bushing and the stop washer on the shock perhaps

Tanmt

got a picture of you complete shock assembly?

96 Ls lnTeG

did you make sure when you re-installed every thing that bottom of the shock dropped back into the fork thats what happen to me on my teg

ironcheftony

maybe tokico's just suck ?

Plan B

go beat on the shocks a little, that may settle em a little.

by beat on the shocks, i mean go **** around with some cones in an empty parking lot.

lowgman

If anybody cares, I fixed the problem!!

I had the bumpstop plate upside down, there is a taper on the inside of the plate which I had on backwards and costed the 3-4mm that I lost.

Anyways, I torn down the front suspension and flipped them the right way, and I got the strut shaft to stick out at least 3-4 threads. However, my car is not any lower, oh well.... I'll just have to save up for some GC/konis

Thanks for all the help guys!

Evs-One

shocks don't determine ride height, unless they are bottomed out and can't go any lower