KSport Coilovers: All About 'Em

[insite]

Originally Posted by Gary in BR

Insite, are you of the opinion that if I raise the rear of my car a half inch my ride quality will be better?

that really depends on some things. if you tell me the height of the front of your car to the fender, the height of the rear of your car to the fender, and your spring rates, i'll calculate a good setup for you.

[Gary in BR]

I will get the fender heights tonight and the springs are the springs that came with the Ksports.

Thanks for the help.

Gary

[RandallNeighbour]

Insite (or anyone else with the knowledge to help me here):

I was going to bring all my suspension parts to my mechanic this morning after I swapped the springs out on the rear Ksport coilovers.

However, the top nut (19mm) is on very tight and the shock spins with it.

I attempted to tighten down the spring to put pressure on the pillow top thing and remove it, but it didn't work.

Another thought I have is to lower the adjustment rings to the bottom, slide the spring down, and grasp the shaft of the shock with a vice grip at the very top where it would not travel (probably).

However, I thought I'd just post this here and ask anyone to give me some quick advice on what to do. My mechanic has time to get this done and I don't want to miss my window of opportunity!

[insite]

Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour

Insite (or anyone else with the knowledge to help me here):

I was going to bring all my suspension parts to my mechanic this morning after I swapped the springs out on the rear Ksport coilovers.

However, the top nut (19mm) is on very tight and the shock spins with it.

I attempted to tighten down the spring to put pressure on the pillow top thing and remove it, but it didn't work.

Another thought I have is to lower the adjustment rings to the bottom, slide the spring down, and grasp the shaft of the shock with a vice grip at the very top where it would not travel (probably).

However, I thought I'd just post this here and ask anyone to give me some quick advice on what to do. My mechanic has time to get this done and I don't want to miss my window of opportunity!

NOOOOO! Don't do that! it might be a good idea to let the mechanic do this since he'd be on the hook if he screwed up. here's the PROPER way to do this: look inside the shaft (in the center of the nut where the adjustment knob goes); you will notice that you can fit an allen key into the shaft. use a 19mm box wrench on the nut and an allen socket to hold the shaft. this will do the trick.

[RandallNeighbour]

so it loosens from the inside?

disregard the PM I just sent you...

[der Geist]

Randall:

You can also use an air wrench on it. It pops right off. K-sport had told me this was the preferred method of removing the nuts.

[Kirk]

Randall, it sounds to me like you're trying to get the nut off the shaft of your KSports, right? I just had a similar problem with my JRZ adjustables - how to hold the shaft from spinning to tighten the top nut down. What I did (since I had enough exposed thread to do this) was put two more nuts on the shaft above the nut to be loosened or tightened. I then snugged those two nuts up real tight to each other. This kind of locks them onto the shaft. Then you can hold these locked nuts with a wrench (which then holds the shaft steady from spinning) and loosen or tighten the main nut you're trying to get to. Worked for me and no need to bung up your shock shaft with vice grips.

Kirk