Evening all, hopefully someone can help me. I\'m trying to remove my Tein HA\'s from my FD, it ain\'t happening though. See below, everything else is undone! Basically I can\'t pull the strut through the top of the turret and out.
This black rubber \'thing\' won\'t budge, if you try to undone the nut at the top of the strut the whole thing just keeps turning
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It\'s probably something really obvious but if someone could point it out it\'d help me alot :cheers
Cant quite make it out but is the strut top allen key slotted (at the very tip) at a glance looks like my Bora dailys suspension which needed an allen key sitting in the top (with a breaker bar extention...) holding the strut still while a ring spanner undid the strut top nut
Failing that - is it the strut itself or the entire unit thats turning? dont know how far you\'ve got with removal but generally best to crack these nuts off while still on ground and suspension fully bolted up etc :/
Quote from: GhostWKD;643174Cant quite make it out but is the strut top allen key slotted (at the very tip) at a glance looks like my Bora dailys suspension which needed an allen key sitting in the top (with a breaker bar extention...) holding the strut still while a ring spanner undid the strut top nut
Failing that - is it the strut itself or the entire unit thats turning? dont know how far you\'ve got with removal but generally best to crack these nuts off while still on ground and suspension fully bolted up etc :/
The very top nut is the dampness adjuster I think, that just turns on it\'s own between soft setting and hard setting. It isn\'t the entire unit moving no, if you look under the turret as you\'re turned the bolt/plaster \'thing\' the strut going inside the dampner is turning, but everything else stays still.
that top nut has to come off and the plastic ring comes off the strut will then drop out.
the top nut is not the damper hardness adjuster. You need to lock it with a wrench in order to get the big nut off.
And if your scared of breaking it, try to loosen the big nut with an air gun.