1-5 on stock shocks? klr650 2007

[dooden]

I have only turned mine clockwise, I could see it not hurting much going counterclockwise except how are you going to get that big step to go from 1 to 5 ? Think of the AT&T signal bars they show on there TV ads but in a circle, 2-3, one small step for mankind, 5-1 one giant leap for broken adjusters. Just my $.02 Dooden A15 Green Ape

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Khoury wrote: > > I've never turned mine backward at the suggestion of the manual. I've heard (anecdotal) evidence that turning them backward rounds off the detentes and they have a tendency to randomly adjust themselves afterward. I've never seen this happen, though. > > -Jeff Khoury > Astatic Solutions, LLC. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jud Jones" > To: "DSN KLR650" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:14:39 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: 1-5 on stock shocks? KLR650 2007 > > > > > > > > > --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com , Rick McCauley wrote: > > > > Jeff, I turned mine backwards to 1. I was replacing my spring, and wanted as little resistance as possible before I tried to compress the spring for removal. > > Either you experienced, or witnessed, some bad luck, or I was lucky for a change. > > > > As long as I have had a KLR, it has been ok to turn the preload adjuster backwards. Any adjuster bolt that breaks from being turned counterclockwise was probably bound to break anyway, as more than a few have done. > > The damping adjustment at the bottom of the shock is only supposed to be turned one way, but I have no idea what the penalty is for an infraction. > > All of the foregoing applies only to '07 and earlier shocks. > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >