Thread: KONI shocks

rick130 by time I buy the patrol shocks and get them revalved in Austalia wouldn't I be better of buying koni raids 90-5401 from the UK for 270-300 aus dollars per shock delivered? Or do you think the 30-1312sp1 for 130-140 aus dollars per shock delivered be any good?

Originally Posted by bushrover

Could be 270, but I rough measured 250. Without the bump stop extensions it will bottom on big hits, I would rather protect the shock even though it will probably handle it. Not real happy with the compression damping, needs to be stiffer when loaded.

You don't want them going metal to metal at all, they won't handle it, and the repair $ are almost too high high to bother about fixing, you just buy a new one.

What ends up happening is that the rebound adjuster hits the foot valve bending the adjuster ears, frigging the foot valve and often, if the hit's big enough, the bowed out adjuster ears bulge out the pressure tube.
Sometimes you can get away with just inverting the pressure tube and replacing the foot valve and rebound adjuster, give everything a really good flush out, replace the piston band and shaft seal and re-fill with oil and away you go again, but if the pressure tube is totally fragged it's just not cost effective in parts and labour to fix.

Re-valving is pretty straight forward for changes in bump, you can send them off to Proven Products and they'll replace the foot valve with another one.
The foot valve can be revalved too, but I doubt they'd bother, much quicker/easier to swap it for a new one, the obvious choice being one that's close in spec to the one used for the rear of the 110.