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Hei!
Har gule Koni bak — etter langkøyringa forrige veke har eg prøvd meg litt fram med å justere mellom hardt og mjukt. Nå sitter justeringa på venstre side (førerside) bak dønn fast. Nokon som har opplevd liknande? Og kva var isåfall løysinga (om det fins ei uten å måtte kjøpe ny demper).

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http://nissanroadracing.com/showthread.php?p=49995

i called chris at shox.com, he told me to call paul at koni (859-586-4100), paul said to use pliers/cresent wrench/nose, and force clockwise to soft even if it put up resistance ,if the adjustment tab broke, he said he would warrantee/cover it free of charge (even shipping), so with that said i took a assortment of pliers and went at it, luckily for me it turned!!!!, problem fixed, called paul back and hes sending me another adjustment knob free of charge (my original rounded out on the stuck shock) I used your advice after and soaked both front shock towers with wd40 just for the hell of it.

http://honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=893006

The adjuster could be stuck for two reasons: bottomed and internally damaged or just simply adjusted to a max setting and turned too hard to thread bind the adjuster. The fact that the shock comes out very, very slowly on that shock would give some evidence that it simply may be stuck at a max setting so I would expect it to take a very long time to extend under it's own gas pressure. My suggestion would be to try to carefully turn it clockwise towards soft and unstick the adjuster. it will either break free or break off depending on what has happened. If it breaksfree, you are good to go. If it breaks off, it was already stuck and damaged so there is no real loss there as it adds no effort if you have it serviced. To try to break it free, put a small crescent wrench (parallel jaw and not pliers what are not parallel) on the adjuster tab at the top. Hold the chrome rod in your hand and lightly bounce the wrench in a clockwise direction with your other hand. The adjuster rod is about a 14 inch long "J" hook that reaches all the way through the piston rod, pokes out the bottome them hooks back up to interact with the adjusting nut on the bottom then hooks back up to interact with the adjusting nut on the bottom side of the piston. It is this nut that gets stuck with a jammed adjuster. If you lightly bounce the adjuster rod, it will twist and wind up and try to loosen the nut. If you turn it too hard, too quickly, you can just snap the rod off so be carefull to bounce and turn it without overstraining it too much. If it can be possibly loosened, this will do it. If the nut can't be loosened then the rod would break anyway and doesn't matter. If you do break off the adjuster rod, l;et me know and I can likely sell you a single new one for a bit over $100 each. It will be chaper and faster for you to buy a new one than to have the current one taken apart, fixed and rebuilt and tested.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.p ... alve-stuck

Was finally able to get them unstuck. Went back to the place where I bought them and what they did was this : Took a adjustable wrench and lightly, very lightly tapped on the front strut adjuster, then took the knob and tried to turn the adjuster, again, very lightly. Re-tapped, turned and it finally un-jammed.