How hard is it to put the spring on the lowest perch? Im gonna try to do it tomorrow - Any tips? I have eibach prokits b/t/w

 

Not that hard. You'll have to remove the shock from the vehicle. Take some needle nose pliers to pry the metal perch selector apart and slide it down.

 

Thanks ! any other tips? can i do it with the shock on the car?

 

yup...it's that easy.

 

You could try to get a spring compressor that fits in there...compress the spring and then adjust the perch...I've never done it, and I wouldn't exactly recommend it either...but that is another possibility.

 

Yup, what I did.

Tried that. The spring compressor is too bulky to fit in there to compress the spring. Plus, you could only get it on one side instead of two, and I would consider that unsafe.

 

 

Just be safe and undo the suspension. Also, you can use two screwdrivers to remove the perch (considering of course that you have two people helping).

 

jack the car up and just remove the clip but first wrap black tape round the bottom of the middle clip and stick visegrips on the tape so the spring dont fall down install the clip on the bottom fitting and remove the visegrips and tape done

 

As mentioned, it's possible, but c'mon now...work on your car with safety in mind. You don't want the compressor "accidentally" snapping off while your fingers are there (OUCH!). Consider disassembling the suspension as "practice." Next time you do it for yourself or your friends, it'll be second nature.

 

Do you have any friends that work at a big auto shop or car dealer service dept.? One of my friends works at a Chevy dealer service dept. so we pulled my car in there after 5 one Friday to install that 4th Koni shock (after one broke), and also pulled both my rear shocks to put the perch on the lowest setting. They had a big wall-mounted spring compressor, so we just stuck the whole spring/shock assembly in there upside-down, compressed the spring a bit, moved the clip and that's it.


[Modified by PatrickGSR94, 8:28 AM 4/25/2002]

 

thanks for the info guys.. unfortunately it raining out today - so i have to postpone my work ... thanks again

 

I don't know why you would set your koni yellow's to the lowest perch??? I have the koni yellow's with neuspeed sport springs. My koni's are set to stock height, if i were to put it on the lowest perch, my car would literally be undriveable!!!

 

I have eibach PRO-KITS!

 

I had to put my rear shocks on the lowest perch to get it to sit even. But you're right, if I put my front perches on the lowest setting it would be pretty tough to drive it.

 

What perch front and rear for Koni Yellows is best with Eibach Pro-kits?

This will be the setup that I'm gonna buy.. for the front shocks is it the middle perch, and for the rears it's the lowest perch? There's 3 perches (high, middle, low) for every shock?

What's the best setup to make it look even, and is that the same setup to make it handle the best?

 

My Koni's only have two perches - right now they are both on the top perch,my rear has 1 finger gap with 205-45-16 tires- the fronts have like 2 finger and half.. Depending on how big your fingers are - This is why i want to put the fronts on the lower perch