when i looked into the hole in the chrome cover i most certainly did NOT see an opening that would require an allen wrench.
actually, it appears that the bolt is stripped out.

Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08:


That all sounds logical Greg and thanks. I will do some crawling. Have not gotten a chance to do that with the storms coming our way. But will.

Susan wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08:


Except that they turn the same direction on different sides of the bike.  So it bumps into different parts of the bike.  It is still best to look up in there to make sure they are set  on the same notches.

cphilip wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08:


Maybe I can clear this up:

1.  Clicks are audible.

2.  Holes are not in the same position because the same shock is used on both sides.  This means you get a mirror image effect.

3.  To echo Greg's point, you can use any tool in the hole.  I just mentioned an allen wrench because that is what I used.  All you are doing is using a tool for leverage to turn the chrome cover and the underlying shock adjuster.

Hope that helps!  

OK got it done finaly. And as suspected the big dude that used to own this had em all the way up. I ended up placing them in the last notch before returning all the way up.

However earlier it was stated there were five positions. I could be counting them wrong but I seem to be only counting four? I see the real steep drop and then only three more step drops up. I am in the last one before the highest one so it really doesn't matter.

A quick test run and I could feel it was a tad softer. So for now I am going to ride like that a while. I suspect the highest setting was a tad more harsh than I needed weighing in at about 170 or so. And from extrapolating some of the others of your examples I theorized about that setting would be good. But time will tell.

So what position are people riding in?
(Your answer will be most useful to others if you include whether you ride 1 or 2 people and your weight).  

I ride in position 2 (second softest).  I never carry a passenger and weigh just over 100 lbs.  Even for me position 1 seemed too soft...

Mine, when I got it was in the middle position.  It goes from the middle point, two down or two up, then all the way down. Why they do that, I don't know.  At any rate, it's obvious that once it's in position 6 it's there to stay unless you take the shock off or maybe put the bike on a jack.

Anyway I set mine to all they way soft, and it felt pretty good.  But I am a man, and a man who sets performance above comfort   So, I raised it to 5 (hard) and decided it was a little bit more bumpity than I wanted, and not that I couldn't take it, of course being a man who cherishes performance over comfort, but I wanted to see if setting 4 would provide better performance at the risk of also providing more comfort.  

So, when I went to make the adjustment, I could not remember which way to turn it.  Since I am a man and don't like to rely on printed instructions  (it would uncomfortably close to referring to a map, after all)  and I did not feel like walking inside the house to get the book, so, since I am also a man of logic, I deduced that I had a 50/50 chance of getting it right.































I never have been a very lucky person, so after turning the wrong way, I went ahead and did the other shock to match and have been riding along very comfortably ever since.