How to Set up Preload and Adjust Ride Height on Suspension with a Divorced Spring Setup

Quickly and easily adjust your vehicle's ride height and set preload on your divorced spring suspension setup. #fortuneauto #advanceforward

[@olmosbananas]

step 1) get a lift

[@toptens9114]

So you are lifting the shock at full extension. Wouldnt this cause topping out of the shock over bumps?
What if you compress the spring, wind the shock into the body and then thread the shock upwards using the force of the spring to maintain the control arm height.
Wouldnt this give you desired preload and shock travel

[@Zackparagon]

Yes, this would also have the desired effect.
The shock will always top out at full extension of the spring unless you have limiting straps, or unless the shock has some sort of internal top out spring or hydraulic top out stop. “Zone control” on some of Bilstein’s newer offroad suspension would be an example of this.

[@noophe5747]

pain in the ass to get full droop in your driveway with divorced spring and povo torsion beam suspension on a swift/polo etc

[@BigRigTrig]

Going through this too on a Corsa C with a beam axle, absolute pain, i agree

[@waybach]

May I ask why your coilovers come with a sticker that states not to mess with preload…. My mechanic stated the preload was incorrect after installing my coilovers without adjusting them. But each individual struts had this sticker to NOT TO MESS WITH PRELOAD… Please can anyone from FA please answer this?

[@stock.wheel.shawty]

tightening preload stiffens the spring, loosening it makes it softer to a point. preload is set up to match the stiffness of your shock, but you can absolutely crank that hoe to get ultra hotboi static stiffness.

[@Zackparagon]

Some applications require a minimum amount of preload to avoid unwanted spring noise, like that which can be heard in the video before preload is properly set. While adjusting preload from the factory setting should not cause issues, it can introduce some noise if not preloaded enough.

[@stock.wheel.shawty]

@@Zackparagon yes i'm sadly experiencing this as we speak, i'm fixing it soon

[@wikkoh]

This video is in tune brotherrrr🤙🏿🔥

[@nzuncovered1845]

There not coilovers when it's on a divorced setup. Coilover means exactly that, coil over spring

[@Zackparagon]

Coil-next-to

[@tyler12865r]

They're*

[@ElKing001]

What you speak of are married coilovers then there’s divorced coilovers

[@Savorychicken41]

That divorced setup looks god awful to look at 😂

[@Andrew-ku8du]

To clarify, You do this as you are demonstrating it, with the suspension at full droop and not loaded?

[@joe-c8q]

yes - you adjust preload when car is full droop - usually you want to compress spring ~5% so there's some tension when going over bumps

[@Zackparagon]

Yes, correct!

[@xierxu]

2010 Toyota blade AZE154H. Coilovers available?