Best practices for adjusting coilover ride height

[lodesigns]

Hey guys,

Just in the process of raising my vehicle for the winter months i am running solowerks coilovers, now Question

What is the best practice to adjusting the height a few times and not 5 times per wheel?

I did the fronts they are not dead even, even though i think they should be, but every time i adjust the one side the other side goes up or down a little bit.

Should I just count by threads and call it a day?

Back first? front first?

might be a noob question i am open to input

[adamazing]

I always count threads. In a perfect world, all other factors are equal (like camber, alignments, etc). After adjusting you can measure your ground to fender height for exact specifics and see if a follow up adjustment is needed.

[Smellie]

Do you guys use a spring compressor to make adjustment easier?

My friend told me to lock one of the wrenches at the very top so it doesn't allow the spring to move. Haven't tried it yet but looking to adjust soon

[zcspec]

First off, adjusting coilovers no matter how you look at it, has NEVER been an easy task to do. The way I have adjusted mine:

- drive the vehicle to make sure all the springs are seated/set in
- find a level area and then measure each corner's ground to fender distance, or wheel center to fender distance
- determine the height you want to be at, then either spin the perch up or down accordingly by counting the turns. In my experience, every 4 complete turns of the perch is equal to about 1/4", your results may vary
- once you've adjusted each corner, drive the vehicle again and remeasure. You should be pretty darn close.

For the front coilovers, there is no easy way to adjust them. You simply have to use elbow grease and spin the perch up or down, turn by turn. Going UP is always a bitch because you're fighting the compression of the spring/shock. For my rears, I usually disassemble the rear shock which allows easy assess to raise or lower the rear spring perch. It's a little more work, but NOT having to fight the compression of the rear shock/spring is well worth the effort.

[lodesigns]

so i did the back they were fine all measured up, did the front passenger side, rear was still equal.. still all good.. i go and do the front driver side both front sides measure up. then go to driver side rear goes up 1/2 " SOB..

[audiAYYY4]

Yeah it's a iterative process. Any time you adjust one corner it will affect the others. In time you will learn how to account for that.

I never bothered with spring compressors. Adjusting my PSS10s were not difficult enough for me to want to use one.

Counting threads will put you in the ball park, but the weight isn't distributed evenly at each corner, so this will not result in even fender gaps. The simple answer is, there is no simple way. But after adjusting a few times you do get better at it. After a while I understood how adjusting one corner would affect the others and adjusting became much easier.

[bluetori]

I know the subject is raising for the winter but you actually don't have to. However like others have set I count threads just doing turns never seems to be as accurate, although mine are not equal anyway since I have more rub on one side than the other.