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Old Jun 2, 2014 | 04:51 PM
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KW V3 adjust

I'm having trouble adjusting the rears on my KWs. It's almost impossible to adjust the rebound.
Any tricks for this?
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Old Jun 4, 2014 | 09:15 AM
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Do you mean getting to the rear rebound? I used loctite and fixed cut off Allen keys into the tops of both the rear rebound adjuster screws.
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Old Jun 8, 2014 | 10:22 AM
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take ur 2mm allen key. vice grip it And bend the shape into less than 90degrees angle then cut the long end allen key to half the length so it fits inside the circle. i dont locktite mine in tho
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Old Jun 8, 2014 | 08:19 PM
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I ordered the purple KW adjuster knobs and had Robi install them. He used some red loctite to keep them in place.

http://www.racecompengineering.com/i...ment-knob.html

Order from KW and they will be cheaper.

I could not maneuver them in myself with he KWs installed (let alone the other solutions mentioned such as an allen key-I could not manage to get anything in there... that's what she said)

Even Robi had to drop the shocks to get them in. Then for super convenience I ordered these BC racing adjuster extenders:

http://www.maperformance.com/bc-raci...ders-only.html

These are for BCs and a hair small for KWs so I brought them to a machine shop and they took out about .5mm to fit over the KW knobs tightly ($20), and the small hex set screw holds them on.

Getting those onto the KW knobs and tightening set screws was easy, perfect fit, feed the handle tops up high through the big openings above and inwards in the shock tower brace (NOT the openings directly around the shock top hats/bolts) for easy access through the service panels for water and battery left and right. No more need to take out/leave out the covers to adjust. I can make adjustments in seconds.

Adjusting KWs without this is a bee-atch!

Last edited by lbcevo; Jun 8, 2014 at 08:23 PM.
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