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Main Area => General GS500 Discussion => Topic started by: pprider on March 24, 2005, 08:14:16 AM

Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: pprider on March 24, 2005, 08:14:16 AM
so i didnt get a toolkit with my GS. and i would like to stiffen up the suspension. is there a way to do it without the tool kit or is it just easier to buy the tool? if i get the tool do i need to remove the tire to adjust it and what settings do you keep your GS at?

Thanks!
Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: Jake D on March 24, 2005, 08:16:34 AM
I don't have a spanner wrench either.  You can take a big center punch and a hammer and put the center punch in one of those slots and hammer it at an angle and get it to spin.
Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: pprider on March 24, 2005, 08:42:01 AM
hmmm i dunno if i wanna do that lol
Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: tdan553527 on March 24, 2005, 08:44:06 AM
I just used a long flat blade screwdriver
Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: pprider on March 24, 2005, 08:45:03 AM
you remove the tire to do so?
Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: tdan553527 on March 24, 2005, 08:45:47 AM
nope, went in from the side
Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: pprider on March 24, 2005, 08:53:30 AM
hmm ill have too look at it when i get home what is your setting at? would leaving it on the stiffest be a bad idea?
Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: tdan553527 on March 24, 2005, 08:54:58 AM
I don't know about the stiffest, might be too jumpy. I just moved mine up to number 5 (from 4 stock), a big difference.
Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: pprider on March 24, 2005, 07:49:54 PM
hmm i think ill try this on the weekend
Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: DerekNC on March 24, 2005, 08:03:11 PM
A bicycle bottom bracket spanner wrench may also work if you happen to have one.

Derek
Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: Blueknyt on March 24, 2005, 09:56:03 PM
sounds like Davipu needs to make some spanners for shock adjusting
Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: davipu on March 24, 2005, 09:57:53 PM
or you could learn how to use a large standard screw driver. (it works better than the spanner wrench.
Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: sledge on March 25, 2005, 03:00:53 AM
The tool used to adjust the setting is known as a c-spanner, they come in several sizes and  good engineers merchants or specialist cycle shops will stock them. If they dont stock an adjustable one you will have to quote the radius of the ring you want to turn to get the correct size.
Title: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: raylarrabee on March 25, 2005, 08:50:26 AM
do yourself a favor and just replace the rear shock with a used Katana 600 shock (see Pantablo's site and numerous postings here for details on proper medel years and installation tips).  You can get one for marginally more than the price of a new wrench, install it in 30 minutes, and the ride quality will be immeasurable better.
Title: Re: Adjusting rear with no tool.. help any one?
Post by: gs500fu_2006 on July 23, 2006, 08:24:52 PM
Here's a video I made on how to adjust the rear suspension
http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/13827/GS500F-AdjRearSusp-23Jul06.avi.html
I read a ton of posts after having my own trouble with the spanner tool.  The trick here is not to use the spanner tool and instead use a crowbar.  DO NOT USE A PHILLIPS HEAD SCREWDRIVER.
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