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Stuck Adjuster Ring On Coilover (spring Height/preload)

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Hi all,

Well last week I went to adjust the hieght on the stag for the first time. The coils are Gab Wagons I purchased off a mate. They came on his car when it arrived from japan.

Got all the locking rings moving easy as. Then the spring adjusters moved but with a fair amount of effort apart from one of them.

The ring that holds the spring and you adjust the height/spring compression with wouldnt budge eitheir way (up or down). The ring is made of alloy and trying to move it Ill admit I did chew it up abit. I tried heating it carefully and using various things for more leverage and couldnt get it to move! I even took the spring off to see if that aided but still no love! Pedders couldnt get it to budge either.

Anyone have any ideas? Im thinking I may have to cut it off and get an engineer to make me a new one :thumbsup:.

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try spraying some Inox/Lubex/WD40 or similar on it and leave it overnight. keep putting more on everynow and then. it may work. but being alloy it easily binds up if the thred hasn't been moved in a while. i'm constantly snapping off stainless bolts that have bound up in alloy threds at work, nothing you can do about it.

if you have to cut it off, which may be the easiest way, before going to an engineering shop to get one made up, first go down to a place like BSC or anyother bearing/engineering supply place and see if they can source a ring nut for you.

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i did spray in in break cleaner to clean threads followed by WD and inox... still no love :'(

trust me your best bet is the use of a pipe wrench. not sure if thats what you guys call it but its mainly used in pipe work plumbing etc.

try to just take one lock unto it to avoid damaging.

if necessary lock into a vice for easy pulling.

if no vive put the socket handle or small pipe into the base bolt up hole to secure it from movig. other little tip are there if you dont get through

good luck

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