Thread: Guide: Building Custom Koni Shorts (CSKs)

No, these are B15 Spec V Konis, the adjuster is at the top.



Now you can probably understand the whole issue with torquing it down properly.

But you have a hex section on the top...
It seems like a common offset box wrench would do the trick. But I guess if you had one of those, we wouldn't be having this discussion...

(Holy shit, an image search for "suspension top nut offset box wrench" brought up this from SE-R.net as the first result.)

Yeah Ben, that is what you have to do. But you can't properly use a torque wrench like that. It also felt really awkward doing that with the adjuster in the center, I was worried it could snap, of course that wasn't true, only if I over-torqued it.

Ratcheting box wrench, for the win.

A ratcheting wrench is also not a torque wrench.

How many in-lbs or ft-lbs do you need here? Enough to squish a bushing? Come on fellas, this is not a rocket science event of tightening the top nut on any suspension component I have ever worked on.

I used 50 ft-lbs on the top nut when I re-did my OEM suspension. 50 ft-lbs is not a whole lot to me and easy to gauge by hand. (for me) Should not Konis match OEM spec on top nut?

FSM lists 46-53 ft-lbs as the OEM spec for the top nut. That is why I used 50 ft-lbs.

I'll admit, this is not a component I care about the torque rating. I hit it with my weak-ass impact which maxes out around 60-80 ft-lbs and call it a day.
I'd be okay guessing it with a box wrench too. I'm sure I would over torque it then as well, and not worry one bit.

You really don't need a torque wrench for the top of these.

The Konis might even be lower than OEM (I think mine were 35 ft lbs and never loosened, even after banging off curbs at several track days).

So is your solution to this in the last sentence? Corn-fused.

If it was any other strut I would agree with "just tighten the thing." But you break stuff when you ignore torque specs, I can't find it now but someone posted on these forums with their Spev V insert broken. It happens. Hell, the nut on mine got jacked just getting to the bottom of the threads and fucked up the strut on the way off before I even hit torque spec, these things aren't the strongest in the world.