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« on: June 21, 2011, 12:14:58 PM » |
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Goofed-posted on general first.
The marks on my shocks are missing. Is there An easy way to tell what setting they are at?
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Valker
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« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2011, 12:43:40 PM » |
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If they are stock Honda shocks, they will only turn easily one direction with a slow, gradual ramp motion. If you get to five (highest setting on stock shocks) and move it more, you will hear a loud "bang". the shocks will then be set on "one" again.
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« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2011, 01:10:31 PM » |
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You would want to limit the number of times you determine this by the loud bang. As the loud bang is the spring and collar going from high tension to low tension and banging the stop.
Honda warns in the manual to not do it. Many of us have by accident and and the shock survived.
Yes it was a bad idea to manufacture the shock without a high and low limiter, but they did it and then warned in the documentation.
So doing it once is probably OK to find out where it is. Then MARK it. So you never have o do it again.
Just my 2 cents worth.
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« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2011, 01:26:55 PM » |
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Yes it was a bad idea to manufacture the shock without a high and low limiter, but they did it and then warned in the documentation. -Mike
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« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2011, 02:24:31 PM » |
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Can't you just turn them down until they don't go down anymore, then you know you are on position 1?
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« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2011, 02:31:47 PM » |
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If you go back to the General board, Willow answered your question. Just keep turning them until they drop back down to the #1 position. They won't bang as was stated. I've done it to mine several times and nothing happens, except they drop to the #1 position after the #5 setting. They also do not turn backwards, so you have to continue if you pass up your desired setting.
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« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2011, 03:13:14 PM » |
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When i looked at the H D L board those stickers show up on the parts fiche for the shock. And yes-i realize being on the parts fiche and being available are to entirely different things. But as stated the shock stickers are listed. Don't know if this helps or not. RIDE SAFE.
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« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2011, 04:29:19 PM » |
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Whatever you do, it'd be easier with the bike jacked up... rear tire off the ground.  |
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« Reply #9 on: June 21, 2011, 06:48:50 PM » |
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I turn the shocks up one for loaded and two up and turn them back down when solo, never had a problem going either direction.
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« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2011, 07:04:59 PM » |
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I saw the warning about gong from 5 to 1. That is why I asked. Putting it on the lift sounds like a good idea. I already have to do that because I took my girlfriend for a ride this weekend and got a burning rubber smell on left hand turns. So I have to remove my rear tire anyway.
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John U.
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« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2011, 02:47:05 PM » |
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The shocks will turn "backwards" (that is from high to low settings) if there is no weight on them. . I buy lightly used OEM I/S shocks rather than Progressives and I always turn them down to the lowest setting to relax the spring as much as possible untill I need to use them. They turn backwards just fine.
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« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2011, 03:27:10 PM » |
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I saw the warning about gong from 5 to 1. That is why I asked. Putting it on the lift sounds like a good idea. I already have to do that because I took my girlfriend for a ride this weekend and got a burning rubber smell on left hand turns. So I have to remove my rear tire anyway.
Did you add a CT or a 200 mm recently? |
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« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2011, 05:10:04 PM » |
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I saw the warning about gong from 5 to 1. That is why I asked. Putting it on the lift sounds like a good idea. I already have to do that because I took my girlfriend for a ride this weekend and got a burning rubber smell on left hand turns. So I have to remove my rear tire anyway.
Did you add a CT or a 200 mm recently? Not recently. Went to a car tire about 5K ago. This is the first time I had a passenger and I think the extra weight caused the tire to rub. So I am going to fix that rather than just upping the shocks to hide the problem. |
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