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sport vs. touring part 2 |
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pilikua on January 16, 2012 at 4:33 PM |
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Hey all, I wasnt able to tell the difference between my sport and touring settings and asked how noticeable the difference was to everyone else. Most of the replies I got were that it was very subtle. Being that my shocks and actuators I just figured that it was working properly....until...I removed the actuators and checked if the actuator was actually turning the adjument on the top of the shock. The front seemed to be working correctly, but in the rear the brackets that hold the actuator were actually holding the actuator too high up and the actuator was not making contact with the adjustment in the center of the shock shaft. basically whoever replaced the shocks did not get the top nut (above the hat) down low enough, so the shaft does not come up high enough. I removed the bracket and put the actuator directly on the shaft and it sits much lower and makes contact. For the time being I put the actuators on the shaft and held them in place with zip ties. If I ever remove the strut and coil someday I will compress the spring and get a few more turns on the top nut so I have more shaft length at the top allowing the bracket to hold the actuator in the proper height.
Kind of hard to explain but hopefully you guys know what I mean. If you have replaced the shocks I would check to make sure the actuator is actually touching the adjustment knob on the shaft.
an easy way to check it is to loosen up all the actuator 8mm bolts and then visually confirm on touring that the adjustment pin is horizontal, then put the 8mms back in, flip it to sport, remove the actuators and confirm that the adjustment pin is now vertical. My fronts were changing, but my rears were not changing orientation.
the fronts are easy to get to in the engine bay, but the rears required me to remove all the rear interior panels...oh well, at least I found it
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- sport vs. touring part 2 - pilikua
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