how to tell if konis are at max stiffness

[98TredSVT]

I want to set my adjustable koni struts at the maximum stiffness setting, how can I tell if it's set like this? When driving it doesn't feel nearly as stiff as I expected it to be, like when going up and down curbs.

 

[svt2sho]

I want to set my adjustable koni struts at the maximum stiffness setting, how can I tell if it's set like this? When driving it doesn't feel nearly as stiff as I expected it to be, like when going up and down curbs.

why you driving up and down curbs? yeah the konis werent as stiff as i thought either.

 

[Pudmunkie]

When you cant turn them towards 'Stiff' anymore.

 

[98TredSVT]

Just pulling into and out of my driveway.....

when I pulled them out of the box, they would turn forevor in both directions, so does that mean something is wrong with them?

Also, how do you adjust the rear's? Do you have to take them out of the car?

 

[morbid]

That's the way my rears have always been.. I can feel the 'stops' on the front struts.

For the rear, you just need to cut about 1/8" off of one of the white adjuster tools. I'm not positive about the amount... I just held it next to the tower top and trimmed only enough to squeeze it in there.

 

[98TredSVT]

how do you get the adjuster above the strut mount? Is it accessible from inside the car? Because it's rammed up in there so I don't see where you could fit your hand.

 

[98TredSVT]

I got the front ones to max out stiffness, but the rear ones I am still clueless as how to get the koni knob on. Do you go from the trunk/backseat? the strut goes all the way up into the wheel well so I'm not sure how it could be accessed from the wheel well

 

[Big Daddy Kane]

Trunk... gotta pretty much lay down in the trunk, pull away the carpeting, and stick your hand up there.

 

[111R]

Trunk... gotta pretty much lay down in the trunk, pull away the carpeting, and stick your hand up there.

x 2

before i got blu_fuz's aluminium knob i used kane's method with the exception of using a small hand-held mirror just to see what was going on in the back.

 

[98TredSVT]

where can you get the knob, does it make it easier to adjust?

 

[111R]

where can you get the knob, does it make it easier to adjust?

hell yeah, especially for the rear because the knob is shorter.

pm blu_fuz; idk if he still makes them.

 

[todras]

Or take a Dremel and cut the top 1/2 off of a Koni adjuster.