Well the othe day i noticed some rather large amount of brake dust build up on my passenger side rear rim. So i figured it was just from me not cleaning the insides. I got in there today underneath my car to clean them out. When i looked under there i noticed alot of black crap was sticking to my new AGX's. So i wiped it off and it was a grase/oil texture. It is oil that has leaked out of the struts and gone down the entire strut and onto the trailing arm and dripping onto my rims... I began to cruse and swear.. i looked at all my other struts and none were dirty because a lite dust coating... This have been installed since mid april and already i have a blown rear
.. Oh and before i get harassed about maybe being too low, they are with the Prokit. So i hoped in my car and it still road amazingly but when i hit bumps i can hear the rear making poping noises when i go over them... Drove to Advance Auto parts and told them what was up. I have basically bought my entire suspension through them, so they called up Keystone and i have another rear AGX here tomorrow.
Although i have finals and work the next 2 days so i can't do @!#$ about it untill friday. But they are going to swap everything over to the new struts for me. Glad the parts are warrented for a year through Keystone and liftime through Advance auto parts. So i don't have to deal with shipping anything to KYB. Has this happend to anyone else? Is there a certain peroid of time where you should leave it set at a certain # before you make it stiffer?
leave them on the softest for i think 500 miles and i dont recomend the max unless ur at the track or strip
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I have them at 3 front and 5 rear... for the first 2 days on i had them at 2 front and 2 rear.. which was about 120 miles of driving on them.
the softest setting might be a tad bit too soft for a lowering spring. remember, like stock struts, when the spring overpowers the damping of the strut, you can blow struts easy.
kinda like coilovers as an extreme example. you can ride with em at stock height, or even above stock height, but the increase spring rate will blow stock struts.
not sure what setting you had it on, but i would atleast run 2 in the front and 2 in the rear after the reccomended break in period.
kinda sucks though when you get any fluid (brake, cv grease, or shock) on the inside of the wheels dont it
been there done that many times.
Dam-it Muffins (Event) wrote:the softest setting might be a tad bit too soft for a lowering spring. remember, like stock struts, when the spring overpowers the damping of the strut, you can blow struts easy.
kinda like coilovers as an extreme example. you can ride with em at stock height, or even above stock height, but the increase spring rate will blow stock struts.
not sure what setting you had it on, but i would atleast run 2 in the front and 2 in the rear after the reccomended break in period.
kinda sucks though when you get any fluid (brake, cv grease, or shock) on the inside of the wheels dont it been there done that many times.
I only had them at 2 front and 2 rear when i first put them on.. Then i upped them to 3 front and 5 rear which i still drive around with it on. But getttin the grease out was a snap, no damage to my rims either( don't know if it acts like brake fluid does to paint), so that made me a happy camper. Maybe its just a faulty rear strut, which does happen from time to time. Glad its a rear so i don't have to get another alignment.... * knock on wood*...
on the alignment.... good point!
should be fine, prob just a faulty one like said. easy fix
I told you you put them on backwards
Let us know how KYB is on fixing it for you.
extremefire wrote:I told you you put them on backwards
Let us know how KYB is on fixing it for you.
I bought them through Advance Auto Parts for $120 a piece with a lifetime warrenty. So after discovering this, this afternoon i drove over to them and talked to the same guys i have been dealing with all along, and one of them got the same struts as me for his eclipse and is lowered way beyond me with no problems yet. So they called up Keystone where they ordered my struts through and ordered another through warrenty and will be in tomorrow. I do not have to deal with KYB myself. Since I am not lowered beyond that magical 1.5 mark, if any of them blow the company has to replace them for me. But i looked at a pic i posted back a few weeks ago and i can see the oil marks in my wheels then, so this has been like this for some time and is more than likely a faulty strut.
I was planning on going to buy my new front and rear strut mounts today and do my drop today and i'll be doing the AGX/Prokit combo and so far this is the only bad thing i have heard about this combo. even tho it sounds like its an isolated incident, i still have reservations about these struts on these springs. Also, CRJ, didnt you say that you were missing a washer or spacer with your front struts? i just checked the boxes and i dont have any type of washer/spacer in there...just that adjustment screwdriver and the top nut. Should i have them for the 2000+ cars and strut mounts?
No, when I installed mine, I put the adjustment knob facing out, he put his facing in.
Jared wrote:leave them on the softest for i think 500 miles and i dont recomend the max unless ur at the track or strip
i dont think that this is a good idea.
see ya!
Nick- The one that came with the washer was one send directly to me from KYB and was for the front. There was an issue with the strut mounts for the 2000+ swap so KYB made the piston longer i belive to accomodate for the issue and inside the box was a notice saying that and the brass spacer. I only needed it on one side, but in results i have 1 adjuster that sits higher than another.. but they were like they are suppose to do.
WW- I tuned my adjustment knobs inside facing eachother since my rims are BBS style and i cannot fit my hands through them to adjust the dial. I have numerous people turn them this way and very few like how like extremefire has his done. But i Truly think its a fluke or a just a rare bad one because the other 3 are doing their job. Even with the blown oil leaking one in the reare\r, my trip to school this morning rode like the first day i installed these bad boys. So this is weird... Car dosn't bounce at all but there is a clunking noise from that rear when i hit a bump...
^^ Which way did you turn your dials towards?
heheh. I was actually joking... but I totally forgot that the dial is on the sides on those as opposed to the top like the Konis. Own3d myself...
New strut came in on weds... Taking apart the rear tomorrow and letting Advance swap springs and strut mounts over in the AM... Can't wait to loose the clunking noise..
I just got my AGX struts and prokit installed today, I have them on 2 front and 2 rear whenever i go over a bump it makes a noise, though i havn't had an alignment done yet and i beleive that the wheels might be hitting the fender i dunno, what you guys think? will this problem clear up after I get the alignment and up the stiffness of the strut?
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I doubt its hitting your fender. It may clear up after you get an alignment, but I'm not sure. I would bump the rears up to 4.
Should I do it tomorrow after the alignment?
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I wouldn't leave the rears on 2 for very long... I did that and i don't know this for a fact, but i had a blown rear in less than a month after install. I got my new strut installed friday and it made a difference and i drove almost 200 miles on it in the past 2 days and i've been checking all of them for oil leaks at the end of every day now... just to make sure. I am not use to feeling every imperfection on the road so when there is hump or dip, i can feel it fo shore.
Wow.... I didn't know you could by AGX's thru Advanced auto parts!!! Where do you live? That must be nice....
When I called for the spacer the KYB said there is no break-in period.
Now I am curious, which is the correct way to put the dial? On mines I have it out, as it is easier to adjust and I followed the same way as stock as to where the spring starts on its lower base.
BTW I did not not see any specific way by KYB. So... (?)
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