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by **Warren** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:16 pm

Hey,

Just wanting to know which way you turn the lock disc things to lower the car.
My rear ones are already at the bottom of the thread and my front ones are about 15mm from the bottom of the thread. Does this mean that my car is as low as it can basically go? If so, thats fine cos it rides quite nice and doesn't scrape very often at all.
I can't put my front ones to the bottom of the thread otherwise the springs arent captive.

by **d1 mule** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:36 pm

left raises the car, right lowers it.
from what i understand it sounds like its as high as it can go??

by **Warren** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:39 pm

d1 mule wrote:left raises the car, right lowers it.
from what i understand it sounds like its as high as it can go??

Thats what I thought. If I were to screw dics up that would compress the springs therefore lower the car right?

by **d1 mule** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:46 pm

is it on the spring or the height adjustment bit?

by **ChaosAD** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:48 pm

So theyre reverse thread? I would have thought that left would lover the spring platforms therefore lowering the car

by **Warren** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:54 pm

http://www.tein.co.jp/products/basic_wagon.html

I have those coilovers.
B are the discs I'm talking about. Do those need to go up or down to lower the car? I would have thought up to compress the spring therefore lower the car.

by **Warren** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:57 pm

Sorry wrong link try this one
http://www.tein.co.jp/products/basic_wagon.html

by **ChaosAD** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:58 pm

The link just goes to the homepage. But on most coilovers, the two rings under the springs will lower the car when you lower them

by **d1 mule** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:21 pm

if you loosen "B" (turn left) you will lower the car same as increasing the pre load raises the car. remember when loosening "B" you are loosening your pre-load on the spring effectivly making the spring softer as there is no pre load only the spring rate eg 6kg/mm instead of maybe 6.5 or 7kg/mm with more pre load wound in im not sure how much preload can be dailed in tho.. hope that makes sense

by **Mr Revhead** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:43 pm

mule, what the hell are you talking about?

warren, winding the nuts up raises the car
winding them down lowers it

by **Warren** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:14 pm

Mr Revhead wrote:mule, what the hell are you talking about?

warren, winding the nuts up raises the car
winding them down lowers it

Hahaha, yeah thats was a bit confusing. But thanks for your response mule, appreciate it.

Thanks Revhead, thats all I need to know.
So my car is basically as low as it can go, which isn't very low I might add, not that I'm complaining. At least I can go over speed bumps or up driveways without having to ask people to get out of the car or scrape all the time etc hahahaha.

by **Mr Revhead** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:32 pm

not confusing.... just using the wrong terms and adding in some incorrect statements.

"preload" as he put it is just the spring taking up load. its got nothing to do with increasing or decreasing the spring rate.

winding the spring up does not increae the rate. nor does winding it down decrease it. unless your talking about the first little bit where its just taking up the weight of the car. which it should always do. and that is a very very small amout of movement.

by **BigDon** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:24 pm

Is that correct if the are progressives though (for arguments sake)?

by **fivebob** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:52 pm

Preload, does what it says, it preloads the springs. So that the load applied to them must exceed the preload before they move. It does not change the rate of the springs from that point on though.

Provided they are preloaded below the corner weight of the car then it has no effect on the suspension, other than static ride height.

by **d1 mule** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:17 pm

oh i see sorry i thought it increased the rate for some reason :oops:

by **Trls250s** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:27 pm

When are you going to finish your drum kit warren?

by **Warren** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:22 am

Trls250s wrote:When are you going to finish your drum kit warren?

WTF!?!?!
Is that you Nic? hahaha

by **Trls250s** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:27 am

haha yea man. Now you have to put up with me on the forums too.

When you going to get your cert?

by **Mr Revhead** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:28 am

PM ppl.... if we want to watch a crappy soap we'll watch shortland street :twisted:

by **Warren** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:08 pm

Mr Revhead wrote:PM ppl.... if we want to watch a crappy soap we'll watch shortland street

lol, I think our crappy soap talk will be a lot better than shortland street.

I'm getting a cert tomorrow for the coilovers at Neil Fraser Certz in Beach Haven

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