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03-24-2016, 07:56 PM | #15 | |
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I thought that may be the answer as well, but after I removed the tophat I realized that the silver that you see in that photo is just a metal sleeve that goes around the actual shaft, so you can grip that, but you're not actually gripping anything that's part of what the nut is threaded on to. Your second idea may actually work though... I'm going to try that |
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Set your preload. Tighten the ish out of the jam nut. Then put a zip tie as tight as you can under the jam nut. It may not work with that fine pitch thread but its worth a try. Maybe put some blue loctite on the thread the jam nut will be covering after setting preload.
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The fact that they set "preload" at 0 speaks greatly as to the quality and testing put into them. Let me guess. They use the bottom mount to set ride height?
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We will see though. Tomorrow morning I'm going through everything front and rear, so I'll make sure to post my findings |
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Using the bottom mount to adjust ride height puts them in a lower instantly in my mind. You set shock length so nothing can rub and adjust height with the spring seats. Functional, will never rub and if the suspension is designed well it has as much travel as you can possibly use.
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at one point, i thought everything was tight and come to find out that one of the lower control arm bolts wasn't tight. so that may be the issue. another solution for the top nut, maybe go to a shop you know and use there air compressor and hit it at a high torque. eventually it'll be tight enough even though it is spinning. |
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how do these differ from i don't understand what you mean "bottom mount to adjust ride height puts them in a lower 'category'"? are you trying to tell me that ohlins are at a lower category? please explain. i have had these exact coilovers with no issues (at least nothing major) |
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The bottom mount on most shocks is there to make slight adjustments when you change things/have different wheels etc but should not be used for general lowering. Thats what the spring seats should be used on. I don't know if the ohlins are any good honestly. But put it this way. No-one runs them here. In Australia it's a 90% MCA dominated market for a reason.
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Does anyone know if there's some sort of coilover lock somewhere on the market? From reading around I've heard a lot of people with many different types of coilovers say that the lock ring has come loose on them before.
I would think someone would have made something to address this- something as simple as a metal clamp with a rubber inner lining so the threads wont be damaged would do the job nicely. Even if the lock rings aren't the issue I'm having right now, I'd buy them just for peace of mind. |
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I'm not too concerned with the rear at this point. They have started making a bit of noise, but it almost never makes noise while driving around. It's mostly when going up the curb to enter the driveway or going slowly in particularly bumpy parking lots. I'd rather they made no noise at all obviously, so I am going to go over everything in the rear again, but my main concern is definitely the front. The front end links are something has puzzled me a bit though. I know that they have hit the control arm at least a couple times because there was a mark on the control arm from them. I've since shortened them a bit more to get a little more clearance . The thing that really doesn't make sense to me is this: At stock height with stock end links, the swaybar is neatly nestled in between the control arm and the tie rod. Obviously nothing hits on anything because the car was designed to work that way. When you lower the car, the strut/spring length gets shorter (raises up higher in relation to the swaybar mount). So if you also use a shorter end link (which the one that came with these coilovers is, even at its longest setting), it causes the swaybar to raise up and due to the shape of the bar and where it is mounted to the chassis, also move forward, closer to the control arm. It stands to reason that to keep the swaybar in as close the stock orientation/angle/location between tie rod and control arm, you would need a LONGER end link since the upper mount raises higher and higher the more you shorten the coilover and lower the car. Obviously there's a point when you would have to worry about hitting the tie rod, but it seems like you'd have to drop the car quite a bit before that would be an issue. Does that make sense? Clearly I'm wrong because everyone either uses the shorter end links provided or cuts and welds their stock ones. I just don't understand why. |
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So your two Locknuts are loosening even when they are locked together. They shouldn't really move. If you are having troubles though wind the bottom one down, add a little loctite (one of the lower strength ones that don't need heat to break) and snug it up. That should do the trick. That'd be what I try first. Easy to do and easy to clean up if it doesn't work.
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