i noticed that its kinda weird adjusting the height on bc coilovers, shop i took it too had trouble they had seaid to me, they had to take the whole coilover out to preset the height why is that?

any help will do cuz im thinkin of lowering my car more n i dont wanna bother taking out the whole coilover set up
thanks in advance

 

You adjust height via loosening the blue ring and threadign the shock into the mount.

 

so bascially, twisting the bottom rings?

 

Yea.. twist the bottom ring to adjust height. The red ring is to adjust the springs load.

 

yea...i didnt know any better either since the guy i took it to has never seen these before so we ended up messing with the red ring and changing the spring preload....

 

This is the proper way to do it.


Unloosen the bottom ring in blue, make sure the tops 2 rings in red are tighten up to one another, now put your spanner wrench on the very TOP RED ring and turn it counter clockwise to lower. If you need to raise you put your wrench on the bottom ring in RED and turn that clockwise to raise. Once you get your height set tighten down the lowest BLUE ring and your set.

This is HOW you do it.

 

Yea no need to remove the coils. Do it like ^^^ and you will be fine.

 

Wrong, you will change ur spring preset rate doing it this way. refer to my first post.

 

Bud you have no idea what your talking about. Your not messing with preset since your not loosening the red collars, your using them as leverage to turn the threaded sleeve. Your handing out wrong info.
You didn't even install these so please allow someone with a mechanical background to give out CORRECT info.

 

Heck i'll even include instructions from BC Racing themselves. I guess there wrong too?

 

Haha ok bud don't get all sensitive on me... I said the same thing... loosen the bottom ring and thread the coil down...which part of that was wrong?

 

You saying the to turn the thread by hand and stating that touching the red collars will mess with preset.
You cannot turn the threads by hand while on the car without using a lot of energy and even then might take a while and still might not work.

 

It will if you do it the wrong way... I guess I didn't understand exactly what you were explaining but ultimately you can do it both ways... jeez sorry I said ur wrong...

 

The most basic way to describe it is this.

The shock is threaded like a giant bolt. The Lower mount is threaded like a Giant nut. So thread the bolt into the nut to raise or lower it. Thread the shock into the lower mount to lower it. Opposite to raise it.

VERY simple.

 

That's the way I do it too. I could not turn the shock itself by hand. It was A LOT easier by using the top two rings for leverage, just have to use the correct ring as stated above depending on if you are lowering or raising.