Koni Shocks

Why pay that much when you can rebuild them for under $100 and its not such a hard job to do, Ikon won't give you instuction to rebuild as they want yo to pay a surspention expert to rebuild them which adds about $250 for them to do it plus the seal kit, if done right in only takes about 1 hour to do each shockie and thats including the cleaning of parts, the first one took me about 2 hours but once I knew how to do it was a lot quicker.

Ashley

This is what I used to put the springs back on the shocks to compress them to put the retained on






a chippies ajustable C clamp, worked a treat, pitty I didn't think about them when removing the springs.

Ashley

Hi All

The Koni's are back on the Norton and are working great, had to reset them for the bike as my old settings were to hard, I have set the top ajusters at number 3 setting and the springs on the lowest settings, when I rebuilt them they said to use 5w fork oil, but I used 10w and it is working very good and I am very happy with the results of my handy work, such a easy job so don't be put off to rebuild Koni shocks, just make sure all the spaces and parts go back the same way as you pull them out and you can't go wrong.

Ashley

Thanks Ashman, have a set on Bike # 2 to do , will follow your pics and thread although may opt to use something other than a sash cramp for a spring compressor and knock up a C peg spanner as I did for my front brake caliper .
Regards Mike

Hi Mike

I made up a peg spanner but the tops were so tight it just bent the pegs, even with the plummers wench was a effort to undo them, as with the big C clamp was so easy to compress the springs, I could have used 2 of them as I do have 2 but one was enough, you just got to ues what ever you have at the time.

Ashley