Anyone have a shock ride height adustment tool?
11-19-2003, 07:29 PM
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Anyone have a shock ride height adustment tool?
I need to adjust the ride height after the install of new shocks and
upper and lower ball joints. I started to order a new one and then
thought that maybe one of you had one that you no longer had a
use for.
upper and lower ball joints. I started to order a new one and then
thought that maybe one of you had one that you no longer had a
use for.
11-19-2003, 07:56 PM
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cancel that idea, the pipe wrenches are either too big or too small. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong but with the ATV shock tool recommended on Nichols tip site, you don't have to remove the front wheels.
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SNAG- Don't use a pipe wrench! The spring perches can be adjusted with the same tool that you use to adjust springs on motorcycles.
Go to ANY motorcycle shop- they'll sell you one for less than $10-
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'85 S2 5 Speed
Go to ANY motorcycle shop- they'll sell you one for less than $10-
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Normy, I contacted a couple of shops in my area and they seemed to have no idea of what I was talking about. Do you have a name for the tool or a universal part # or better yet a particular motorcycle brand that uses the tool?
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No Snag- I actually found mine in the first motorcycle shop I walked into. I even told them what I wanted to do and they handed it to me.
This one is marked "Ohlins", I think they make a lot of mc stuff.
Here's a picture.
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This one is marked "Ohlins", I think they make a lot of mc stuff.
Here's a picture.
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thank you Randy,
I'll give them another try--the locals before I order it from somewhere else.
I do believe on the Nichols site it list a shop that will send it to you for $.
I'll give them another try--the locals before I order it from somewhere else.
I do believe on the Nichols site it list a shop that will send it to you for $.
11-19-2003, 08:47 PM
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Normy,
You are marvelous!! Just marvelous! I'm printing as we speak. I'll go first thing in the morning. After reading that archive however, I'm wondering how easy/hard this is going to be. But what needs to be done has to get done.
You are marvelous!! Just marvelous! I'm printing as we speak. I'll go first thing in the morning. After reading that archive however, I'm wondering how easy/hard this is going to be. But what needs to be done has to get done.
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Getting the tool is the hard part :-). I ordered mine of the net. It was a shock adjuetment tool for an ATV. Once you have the tool, I found it pretty easy to make the adjustment. Just turn the front wheels one way then the other to get into both wheels.
On advice from the archives, I threw some penetrating oil on the threads the evening before I did it. After you adjust a bit bounce the car a couple of times to measure where you are. The nice thing about leaving the wheels on is you don't need the 25 mile drive to settle it after each adjustment.
On advice from the archives, I threw some penetrating oil on the threads the evening before I did it. After you adjust a bit bounce the car a couple of times to measure where you are. The nice thing about leaving the wheels on is you don't need the 25 mile drive to settle it after each adjustment.
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Thanks Marc,
I cleaned the threads real good with a lube-spray LPS that I borrowed from work, and I just put more of the same on it tonight in preparation for tomorrows height adjustment. Then on to Firestone with their state of the art Hunter DSP 600. It's an alignment rig that incorporates lasers and computers used to lift the car perfectly level. They then attach giant reflectors on each wheel which relay info back to the computer telling the adjustments that need to made. The tires and wheels keep the weight of the car on them the entire time.
I cleaned the threads real good with a lube-spray LPS that I borrowed from work, and I just put more of the same on it tonight in preparation for tomorrows height adjustment. Then on to Firestone with their state of the art Hunter DSP 600. It's an alignment rig that incorporates lasers and computers used to lift the car perfectly level. They then attach giant reflectors on each wheel which relay info back to the computer telling the adjustments that need to made. The tires and wheels keep the weight of the car on them the entire time.