well i tried putting in my kyb's today. the rear went in fine and dandy.

but when i moved on to the fronts. ..

the new front struts have a thicker body, so i cant get the fork to go over them again am i doing something wrong?

i mite have the wrong strut, the part number is sb07

can anyone gimme a clue h:

 

sorry to hear your problem....are they AGXs? If so what springs are you running, lemme know how it goes when you get em on, i have some sportlines and my stock shocks are dying so i think i'm gonna go with some AGX's.

 

does it look like a tight fit or something very obvious? cuz those forks hold onto the shocks via clamp force, so if u can pry it open a bit, u can slip the shock in. i have done it many times.

 

they are a clamp type but i didn't try prying them apart because, well, the metal looked pretty beefy. .. i'll try tomm. tho
the base is very thick, i literally scraped the paint off the strut trying to push it on the fork

and jkan2001 i'll give a full report once (if) i get all 4 struts on h: right now i'm running on h&r sports.

just for reference i DONT need a spring compressor to get them off the struts, mainly because they're shorter than stock springs. i HAD to use a spring compressor for the stock springs however

 

Scraping paint in that area is normal. I agree with Outxider. If it just looks like it's way too big to fit, they might very well be the wrong parts. If it's just a tight fit, they'll probably be ok.

 

oo and one more thing, are you s'pose to transfer the stock bumpstops to the new kyb strut? :dunno:

 

yes you are supposed to transfer, in the intructions for the kyb's it will tell you that and they tel you how much to trim the bumpstops

 

i got em in! :yay:juss needed some good ol' muscle


i didnt get any instructions with my kybs . . . .and i dint cut the bumpstops either..

i first set the front shocks at 2 (4 maximum) in the front and 5 (8 maximum) in the rear. and man all i can say is i have a back ache and i'm not as hardcore as i thought i would be h:

there is definitely no more bouncing wiht the new shocks. i can turn very abruptly and the car will not sway or get scary. but now i can feel so many more bumps in the road, i should try different settings to see how the ride can be.

but definitely these shocks arent the most refined things in the world. im guessin if u paid 200 more for koni yellows u'd get a better ride but i'm happy with my purchase

 

When crusing on the HWY I set mine to 1front 2 rear. If you soften the rear it will ride smoother. I normally set mine at 2 front 4 rear.

 

I've got teg KYB's with weaponR coilovers, and mine rides like it's on rails.

We just put some on Spood's car this week. He got the ones for the civic, and is riding on no name coilovers. His ride is way softer than mine (mostly fromt he springs).

I know my springs are 450 front and 350 rear. His... not so beafy. And we both ride on 4 all the way around. (5th gen and 3rd gen teg shocks only adjust 1-4).