Sweary Saturday guaranteed...

[Pupp]

Especially when I tackle the fronts - anyone using Monotubes have any experience of which way up to give the adjusters the best chance of surviving road spray etc (I know inverted is best for unsprung weight etc but I'd like decent longevity too, being of Celtic origin)?

[Buggy]

My Racing Reds have the damping adjuster on the bottom. Was told it didn't make any difference.

[trev4]

I had my set fitted and set up by Mat Smith all the adjusters are at the bottom very easy to adjust

[jojackson4]

Golds
On the bottom

[ChimpOnGas]

I fitted GGPs so I can't really help with your question



But.... they are beauties Gary

Let us all know how they perform when you've fitted them

[roseytvr]

front top, adjust from engine bay. Rear bottom, easier to reach without jacking up the car

[Alexdaredevils]

Dry empty garage at mine if you want to use it Gary

[roseytvr]

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Alexdaredevils said:

Dry empty garage at mine if you want to use it Gary

Well on the basis yours is unlikely to be on the drive, where is it if it ain't in the garage?

[QBee]

The adjusters will collect less grit if they are at the top. As Rosey says, fronts you can adjust from inside the engine bay, but the rears will need the wheel removing, so go for bottom for the rears.
I have all four adjusters at the bottom because it never occurred to me to do it any other way.
It's fine with the Racing Reds, whose adjusters are similar to the Gaz Monos, but I found the silly little adjusters on GGPs got stiff with grit very quickly with the adjusters at the bottom.

[SILICONEKID345HP]

Well my adjusters failed within months on those monotubes !

[QBee]

SILICONEKID345HP said:

Well my adjusters failed within months on those monotubes !

Always you Daz.
If you didn't have bad luck you wouldn't have any luck at all.....
Only compensation is you probably got the best price for them, even if they don't work?

[Pupp]

SILICONEKID345HP said:

Well my adjusters failed within months on those monotubes !

Cheers for that but the query wasn't about how long it took you to knacker them through neglect and you haven't actually said which way up you mounted them. Do you ever READ anything before spouting?

[Pupp]

Alexdaredevils said:

Dry empty garage at mine if you want to use it Gary

Thanks Alex; appreciate the offer - hopefully should be fine as will do the rears first and that's all been apart fairly recently (have a broken spring, which has prompted me to bring replacement forward from the new year as was intended) - will catch up with the fronts later and combine with new joints etc so will prolly do the sweary bit on the bench.

[phazed]

Monos, always upside down, (adjusters on the bottom).

Had them for about 6 years.

[Pupp]

Thanks Peter - assume you've had no seizing problems? Whichever way they end up, I'm thinking a few turns of self-amalgamating tape over the adjuster, preceded by a smear of white grease or similar in the joint, once set, might keep the worst of the crud out... we shall see

[QBee]

Pupp said:

Thanks Peter - assume you've had no seizing problems? Whichever way they end up, I'm thinking a few turns of self-amalgamating tape over the adjuster, preceded by a smear of white grease or similar in the joint, once set, might keep the worst of the crud out... we shall see

I find that damper adjusters stay working better if you lubricate them regularly and wind them fully up and down every once in a while. Us track day nutters have to adjust ours regularly, which solves the problem nicely.

[phazed]

The units do get dirty but generally I haven't had a problem.

I find adjusting them when they are warm is easier as the adjusters when cold can be a little stiff!

[phazed]

Be aware that generally lubricants will allow dirt to stick.

Maybe a dry silicon if anything.

As yet, I haven't used a lube.

[QBee]

Phazed is our own damper changing expert. He went through his Nitron Period (bit like Picasso's Blue Period) where he used to change his dampers over every morning before breakfast as a warm up for the day's work.
What was your best time for all four, from wheels on to wheels back on, Peter?

[phazed]

QBee said:

Phazed is our own damper changing expert. He went through his Nitron Period (bit like Picasso's Blue Period) where he used to change his dampers over every morning before breakfast as a warm up for the day's work.
What was your best time for all four, from wheels on to wheels back on, Peter?

One and a half hours all units changed including a tea!

Using the 2 poster of course