i want to use the lowest perch on my koni's and am wondering if all i need to do is pry off the ring from the top perch and move it to the lower perch? im afraid of breaking the little ring. thanks
these are for the fronts btw

 

no need to worry, just use snap ring pliers. thats what i used on my koni's and it worked well. just spread it enough till it'll move out of the notch that it sits in on the strut body.

hth

 

cool, thanks man.

 

Sort of OT:
Every time I think about all the force on that little ring (holding the car up + bumps + corners), I wonder how the hell it does not fail. ....I try not to think about it too much though

 

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haha yea same here... i just perched it, thanks for the quik responses.

 

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Thank god your car's got four of them

 

What with the fact that CRX-lee hasn't jumped in here yet;

The snap ring works due to the fact that the springs lower seat "captures" it and doesn't allow it to spread.

It's that exact reason that when putting on "coil-overs", you have to make sure that the clip is correctly captured!!

Wes V