I got some tein flexs on my car and want to get the suspension back to factory settings. The guy who had them on his car before me adjusted the spring perches instead of the shock length to adjust the ride height. I heard that this is not the correct way to adjust the ride height because the spring load will change. Now i'm pretty sure the preload on the springs are out of wack because now the ride is super bouncy.

Anyone know how to get the coilovers back to stock settings and willing to help me out?

 

thats just how they are. flexs have hard spring rates. if the fronts were cranked up to a stock height at the the spring that is the correct way to go up. more preload=stiff, less preload=bouncy. but either way the ride height with those will not be stock and on our roads that means either way will be bouncy. just one will give a harder bounce.

 

THREAD JACKING..lol sorry bro.. but i got the BC coilovers Type Br, and i wanted to see if anyone knew where to go or if someone could help me get it adjusted close to stock height, and double check my intall, i got the alignment done and everything checked out... just waiting on my rims to re adjust to a lower stance. PM me

 

raise up the preload till the spring is snug with the top of the shock. thats the highest you can go with your coils. if its super bouncy chances are your coils are blown.

 

Release/loosen the spring perch all the way. Tighten it up finger tight and then do another 1/2 to full turn with a spanner wrench. There's really no "stock" dampening adjustment, just that companies start with the middle setting - and with the Tein Flex, I believe there are 16 settings, so put start it at 8 and adjust from there.

 

Thanks for the input guys. I will try what you said and let you know the outcome on thursday.

 

double post lol read below

 

so let me get this right. Are u saying turn the shock body so the car gets higher and at the same time its preloading the spring more, and seems to be shortening strut length ,THEN loosen the preload to snug ?

 

I think he means to set the spring preload to zero by adjusting the upper and lower spring perches so that they are not too tight on the springs, which should make the ride not too stiff or bouncy.

 

what hawaii said. you need to take the shocks off to do this. take them off, loosen locking ring and spring perch so that the spring is loose. doesn't have to be completely loose so the spring doesnt fall off, just loose. nomsayin? then tighten it finger tight, make sure the spring is sitting correctly, and turn the locking ring half to a full turn. your preset should be good now

 

Ohhh I see. So theres no way to do this without taking the shocks out? I was thinking I could just loosen the upper and lower spring perches and turn them counter clockwise until theres no compression on the spring. Will this work?

 

Thanks for the input guys. I think I figured out why it was so bouncy- there was a big gap between the top of the spring and the shock. Im assuming there was a lot of play and the car was traveling the distance of the gap every time I hit a bump or dip. I corrected this and the ride is much better.

Now I have another issue, I have about a centimeter gap up front but now I smell burning rubber. Is this from rubbing? I'm going to try and find out whats wrong tomorrow.

 

if you smell burning rubber your probably rubbing yes. especially if you only have a quarter of an inch gap before compression unless your offsets pretty high. Roll ur fender and you shouldnt have any rub until you go past a +22 offset.... (fronts) also check and make sure your front cambers within specs or atleast negative. Im assuming you never got your suspension aligned after swapping out to your coils

easy way to see if the smell is rubber is to turn ur radio down hit a bump see if you can hear it rub if 15 seconds later you smell rubber its your tires rubbing something.

you can also look at your sidewall if ur running a stretched tire you should be able to see slight slight wear on your sidewall.

btw you can be rubbing on ur inner wheel well too so don't forget to check for wear on the plastic if you still have the lining

 

I understand how to set the preload snug against the spring . What im wondering is how far up the shock body should the two rings for preload be ? Heres a pic of my coils so theres no misunderstanding, its not the type that raises and lowers THROUGH the bottom mounting point.

 

I wouldn't. Well, you could, but I find it much easier.

Once the ring that actually touches the spring is snug, you only need to turn it 3-5mm with the spanner wrench. That should be about 2 full threads worth. Then bring the locking collar up, and take both spanner wrenches and turn them against each other. You might look a microscopic amount of tension on the spring from turning them against each other, but that's why you give it 5mm or so of snug to begin with.