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| posted on April 4th, 2005 at 04:06 PM |
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Rear Suspension adjuster tool
Hi all,
Has anybody use this tool? Is it for IRS and swing-axle or just swing-axle. Is it any good? I am trying to figure out how it is used as well.
Tool in Ebay
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| posted on April 4th, 2005 at 04:22 PM |
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I us a cheap plastic schoolkids protractor and a piece of string with a weight on the end (a plumb-bob) to do mine...
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| posted on April 5th, 2005 at 10:42 AM |
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I made one similar to that. Have used it quite a few times and it works well. The one in the pic should work on both suspension types.
The "V" part goes to the bottom and is the tightening nut to compress the spring plate. The hook at the other end fits over the bolt where the body
mounts to the shock tower.
Here is how I use mine.
Jack car up and take off wheel.
Remove guard bolts from running board to above wheel.
Mark position of bearing housing to spring plate (for alignment later).
Undo 3 bolts in spring plate.
Attach spring tool to body bolt at top and spring plate just in front of where the 3 bolts go through.
Tighten tool enough to lift spring plate from bottom stop.
Remove torsion bar cover bolts.
Push hub down and lever spring plate over so it is on the out side.
Lever spring plate carefully from torsion tube (use a big screwdrive and just enough to clear bottom stop).
Undo tool to release torsion bar tension.
Reset your torsion bar.
Do the reverse of the above to get it all together.
Takes about an hour and a half each side.
For the tool I made I used 12mm threaded booker rod (could use bigger as it bends a bit) , 12mm nuts, washers, some 25mm square tube and some 25mmm
flat bar. Took just over an hour to make and cost $15 in bits.
Brendan
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| posted on April 5th, 2005 at 03:33 PM |
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OK, I understand it better. Thanks Brendan, I kept looking at it and had an idea but could not figure out where in the top does it secure to. I was
considering buying it because I wanted to do minor adjustemnts to my notch, I want to maybe lift it a couple of cm and also the front to provide more
travel.
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| posted on April 5th, 2005 at 04:01 PM |
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If it is cheap enough, go for it. Makes the job a lot safer and quicker.
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