Remote Reservoir Shock Question

jnabird333

jnabird333

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For those of you that are running remote reservoir shocks clamped or mounted to the main shock.... How do you keep the reservoir and shock from rotating?

My front shocks keep rotating and causing the reservoir to move around, (usually out) when wheeling. They seem to stay in place on road driving but move when the suspension is cycled.

This is only an issue with the fronts as there is nothing to keep the shock from rotating...

Anyway, what do you do if anything?
 
I do not have reservoir shocks but try putting a piece of thing rubber between the shock tower and the reservoir. This should keep the reservoir from rotating.

R/
Will
 
Canvas JK said:
I do not have reservoir shocks but try putting a piece of thing rubber between the shock tower and the reservoir. This should keep the reservoir from rotating.

R/
Will
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Sorry, I should've been more clear. The reservoir is not turning in the mount the whole mount and shock body is turning.

MTG said:
Tighten the top nut.
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This is what I was thinking, but the rubber is pretty damn smushed... WAY more than the stock shocks were and I passed the torque specs that came with the shocks long ago trying to fix this.
 
Rebel JK said:
Is MTG refering to the preload jam nut?
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Negative, well I think negative. (I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about)

The directions state...

"Tighten the locknut on the stem to 25 N-m (19 lb-ft)."

I'm way past that.... although that's where I started. they flopped everywhere at that torque.

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Beyrgut said:
That sounds like a wrong or missing bushing, got any pics of them mounted?
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I can grab one when I get home. But they are mounted with the bushings that came with them and exactly as shown in the image.

I'm having this with both front shocks...
 
There realty isn't anything to keep them from rotating other that the friction of the compressed bushings.... Since this would be common among any similar type shock I thought it would be a common thing with a simple trick to resolve.
 
Yeah that part of the installation is the same regardless if it has a remote reservoir. Something doesn't sound right if it's able to rotate with pressure applied. For mine I had to loosen the top nut to rotate them for clearance of the hose and reservoir.
 
My only experience with coil over is on a dirt bike. There's a nut mounted to shock body that adjusts spring preload directly and then there is the jam nut behind it that prevents the spring contact nut from loosening. With enough spring preload, I would think it wouldn't turn. Have you jacked it up to full extension and tried to turn shock body by hand? I May be out there on this but just just thinking out loud.
 
Rebel JK said:
My only experience with coil over is on a dirt bike. There's a nut mounted to shock body that adjusts spring preload directly and then there is the jam nut behind it that prevents the spring contact nut from loosening. With enough spring preload, I would think it wouldn't turn. Have you jacked it up to full extension and tried to turn shock body by hand? I May be out there on this but just just thinking out loud.
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He doesn't have coilovers.
 
Beyrgut said:
Yeah that part of the installation is the same regardless if it has a remote reservoir. Something doesn't sound right if it's able to rotate with pressure applied. For mine I had to loosen the top nut to rotate them for clearance of the hose and reservoir.
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Post a pic please. Unless the stem is loose on the shock body I don't see any other way for it to spin. Can you turn the shock by hand and visually confirm whether the nut is turning too?
 
MTG said:
Post a pic please. Unless the stem is loose on the shock body I don't see any other way for it to spin. Can you turn the shock by hand and visually confirm whether the nut is turning too?
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I'm not home yet, but I have confirmed that the nut turns with the stock body. (It's a locknut.) It doesn't turn easy by hand by any means but it's doable. In fact, that's all I do to put it back into place.

Edit to add that the stem is part of the drawn shell with Bilsteins... Its not welded on. There really isn't a way for it to turn without failure.

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I was having the same problem. The only solution for me was to mount the remote separately (I was lucky to have a long enough hose)

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Thanks all,

I got home very late last night and was in no condition to take a picture....

After looking at some other pictures I found on the vast interwebs, I think I can still tighten the upper bolt up more. While the bushings are pretty squished on mine they are not as squished as even some pictures I found on the Bilstein site and documentation.

If this doesn't work I will look into mounting to the frame.
 
Update to this issue I was having.

Turns out my tires were, in fact, ever so slightly grabbing the reservoir at full stuff and turning and pulling the shocks around. I lowered the reservoir to allow me to push it back about another inch and they have stayed in place.

I realise this points out I'm an idiot, but hopefully it will help anyone else that might have this issue.

I checked for rub both with a fork truck and RTI ramp, but real world wheeling seems to make things behave differently and this is where I had the issue.

BTW: I was able to loosen the top nut and they still stay in place now.
 
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