i was able to get my front suspension on last night. i turned the sleeves about a 1/4 of the way down and put them on the car. now that they are on, i cant seem to turn them to lower the car any more.

i know the car is not supposed to be under load while doing this, and it has always been up in the air when i was trying to adjust it. are there suppposed to be a wrench that fits into the grooves on the adjustment piece that moves it up and down? if not, how am i supposed to adjust them? thanx

 

nope. theres a little "wrench"/screw driver sort of thing, and I know thats not the right word but I cant think of it . But you loosen the adjuster and twist by hand.

allen wrench maybe?

 

yes, you need an allen wrench to loosen that screw then you would be able to adjust the height.

 

There is the spanner wrench that is helpful in turning the collar under spring load (which is f'ing impossible by hand). Not a problem if your springs flop around at full droop.

You can order the wrench from GC.

 

ive only found the collar to be hard to adjust when i was adjusting UP, past the preload threshold. and have never needed a spanner wrench to assist me.

heres the trick to unload some of the spring weight from the collar. use something thin, but strong, like a wrench handle. stick it through the spring at the top of the sleeve, then pry the spring up a bit. that should relieve enough pressure from the collar to loosen it up. that should be all you need if you just want to lower it. if you need to raise it, just repeat it doing little by little.

 

even when i had the suspension off the car, i couldnt adjust them to go any lower. i know to loosen the bolt with the allen key. even after doing that they wouldnt go lower while fully assembled.

i just took them completely apart again, lowered it to where i thought it should be and re-assembled. luckily i picked the perfect spot and everything is fine now. i just have to adjust the passanger side a little bit.

thanx for the input guys.

 

how do u get a new wrench?

 

spray WD-40 on the tube befor you adjust them **** gets in there and stops it from turning freely


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call them and order one

 

they were never on the car or even driven when i tried to adjust them the first time. ill just buy the wrenches.

 

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then you have issues make sure the alen screw is ALL the way out, its NOT that hard to turn them, something is fucked up.


post pictures

 

im at school and i dont have the tools/room to put the car in the air. when i disassembled everything i was able to move it with no problem. when it was assembled it wouldnt budge.

also, if i were to take the allen screw ALL the way out, would it be a bitch to put back in??

and while we are at it, do the numbers on the springs have anything to do with the spring rates? i found it odd that the rears had the specfic number i asked for on them, while the front did not, though the fronts were OTS rates.

 

you didnt listen to my advice did you? you need to relieve the spring pressure (if present) in order to adjust them. you dont need a tool. you would need a tool if there were two lock perches that needed to be tightened against each other to be locked, but the GC design doesnt do that (smart of them). even if you did have a tool, the friction caused by the spring being preloaded on the perch would be too much that even the tool probably wouldnt make the perch budge. relieve the pressure, relieve the friction.

GC/ERS springs come in either metric or english units. the OTS springs for some reason typically come in metric units. custom springs typically will be english. read my faq on how to read and convert the units.
http://www.norcalcrx.org/tyson/coilover.html so its not surprise you got what you did. you could double check if you want.

youd have no problem if you back the screw all the way out, but it wouldnt need to be.

 

i did listen to your advice. i just havent had time to try to adjust them again, being at school and all. everything i am stating happend when i was initially trying to install and adjust them. i had to drive home with the car riding higher than stock. the next day i made this thread, went out to my car, and disassembled everything.

one side of the car is slightly higher than the other, so when i adjust that i will use your advice. it is greatly appreciated. thank you for the helpfull website as well. you have always been very helpful in helping me with my suspension. thank you.

 

I just jack the car up, loosen the bolt, spin the collar.

 

If you can't turn it with the spanner wrench (against the spring pre-load) then you need to take the spring/shock assembly off, and put a spring compressor on it, then you'll have no problem changing the perch height. It's also possible to fit one while its on the car, but there's not much room.

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Car spring says no way.

 

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We're not talking about a car spring, we are talking Ground Controls.

 

so if i jack the car up and the spring is still compressed a lil, i can still loosen the allen wrench all the way, then try to turn the coilover up to raise the car?
if it doesn't turn, then try to relieve pressure from the spring off of the coilover threads and try to turn then?

 

yes. exactly.