I just recently installed a set of Koni yellow's. Now to be up front with all the info, when installing the right front, by mistake while tightening the nut on the top the shock, i spun the shaft about 4 times before I noticed. Its my understanding that this damages the shock.

Well I took the vehicle for a test drive shortly after. Before leaving, I set the ride height exactly the same, about one finger gap. I also set the rebound setting to full firm. Right away I noticed the car was kind of bouncy, I guess this was due to the full firmness setting of the rebound on the shocks. Well then I hit a dip in the road, and heard a loud clunk from the front right corner. I drove immediately back home. When I got out, the front right corner was now about 1 inch lower than the rest of the car. The wheel was tucked under the fender.

Am I facing a blown shock? I took the shock off, I noticed the shock at full firmness was binding up. It would compress, but not rebound. This explained why the front right corner dropped. Is this a symptom of a blown shock. The shocks are brand new. Would the spinning of the shaft caused this. Or do I just need to run the shock at a less firm setting?

 

Get a new shock,you f#@k up this one.

 

yea you probably killed the shock, but good thing they sell koni individually for stuff like this...

 

Emil St-Hilaire

Ok that was not the answer I was looking for.

I am trying to objectively find if the shock blew. I am looking to verify whether its blown or not. I plan to take the left shock off tommorow, I need to check to see if its as easy to compress as the right shock.

 

I don't think spinning the shaft 4 times would lead to blowing the shock unless you were like spinning it with an impact wrench. However, you should not have set the shocks to full stiff before breaking them in. Not sure if that blew it.

 

I love the Instructions the Koni's came with, nowhere do they state anything about not spinning the shaft and setting the shocks to full stiff ness. Good thing is there is no seepage. I am going to put it back on today and set it to medium firmness and see what happens.

 

My experience with a blown shock is that it will squeak...

 

Well i took both shocks out, i compared both of them. Koni's website states that if they are more then 3/8" in difference while compressed they are damaged, mine are perfectly the same. Both feel the same when being compressed. I see no visible seepage of gas/oil. Both are still the same exact length as well. I dont get it. I took them apart, reassembled them and put them back on the car and now everything is fine. Everything torqued to spec. Time to take a test drive now. I have the firmness set at the halfway point. Lets see what happens.

 

if the shock is blown...when you push the shock down it won't rebound back up.

 

i mean, if u spun that by hand about 4x, i dnt think thats bad as long as you dont use air tools on them. You have to understnad that this is gas shox and very sensitive. Just the way u describe the issue, im pretty sure that shox are blown and your best bet is jus to get them rebuilt. I think getting them rebuilt is just as much as getting a new one, so u might want to check with thm on that