How to adjust your koni yellows for dummies.

[Mr. Burns]

Have you shock fully compressed.



Manually pull up the shock and identify the plastic ring.
Remove the plastic ring



With a wire coat hanger, thin welding rod or similar, poke through the access holes to loosen the bumpstop within the assembly.



Remove the rubber bumpstop



Compress the shock once again. Turn and you will feel a "click" or a "notched" feeling.
This means the adjuster valve has been activated.



Twist the assembly to your desired rebound stiffness. For me, it us aproximately 5.25 turns from soft to hard.

Once your desired stiffness is achieved pull up about 1", as this will lock the adjustment in place.

[Roysneon]

Dear God why can't it be as easy as the fronts? I'm now in much less of a hurry to get rear Konis to match my fronts. I'm sure the Bilsteins in the rear will be fine for now.

[digger]

top adjustable, just turn the knob

[Mr. Burns]

Dear God why can't it be as easy as the fronts? I'm now in much less of a hurry to get rear Konis to match my fronts. I'm sure the Bilsteins in the rear will be fine for now.

oh my koni fronts are just like the rears.

when ordering your Koni's....MAKE SURE you get the externally adjustable ones...

[Roysneon]

OH ok good haha I was concerned.

[jrobie79]

whats the p/n for the top adjusting ones?

[ELVA164]

I also wish my rears were externally adjustable like the fronts. I wanted to add a quarter-turn or so to them last time I was under there, but couldn't feel the click and just left them as-was.

[acolella76]

And I thought my adjuster being at the TA was a pain. LOL. So you have to fully compress those shocks to adjust them?

[LJ851]

And I thought my adjuster being at the TA was a pain. LOL. So you have to fully compress those shocks to adjust them?

Yes, after you remove the bumpstop. This makes it so you actually have to remove the entire shock from the car to adjust it. That being said, i can ajust both of my rear konis in 10 minutes flat.

[ELVA164]

This makes it so you actually have to remove the entire shock from the car to adjust it.

Not really true, though probably preferable on a street car. I adjusted the old Konis on the Cortina with the threaded ends still attached without much trouble. Externally adjustable Spax now though!

[ian e30 318is]

This took me about an hour to figure out the first time! Good information for others.