Bought used AGXs for the front: Which way do the settings go?

[boostin94]

There's always a catch when buying something used (as most of the stuff on my car is).

I got a set of KYB AGX front struts installed Sunday (already had the rears on there from 1.5 ago) and the adjusters have been messed up a little bit. I don't know what the adjustment directions are (turning counter clockwise makes it stiffer or softer ) or how far they are supposed to turn. The little black tops that you are supposed to stick a flat-head screwdriver into to adjust them were strippped out , so I popped them out and now I can stick a screwdriver into the top to adjust them, but they infinately spin in either direction.

These already feel better than the GR2s that I was running before, now I'd just like to take advantage of the adjustability

Any help would be great. I read through all of the old posts to get suggestions on street/DD settings , now I need to figure out how WTF ....

 

[mavisky]

wow that sounds screwed up. There are 4 settings and each one is a 1/4 turn away from the next. your problem is going to be figuring out which is 1 and which is 4. They get stiffer going clockwise if that helps any. your best bet would be to take them off the vehicle and rotate the pin until you find the stiffest spot, that would be #4, if you go one more 1/4 turn clockwise then you'll hit the #1 setting which will be the softest. You may not be able to feel the difference as you go from 1-2,-2-3, or 3-4, but hopefully 4-1 will provide a difference you can feel. Then you'll just have to find a way to mark them somehow.