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I paid the balance on my base Templar yesterday. I put a $100 layaway deposit in January. Should be here in a week or two. I was bummed when I saw it go off the website a while back. I emailed Zora at Powersports Max and she said they actually reserved one for me in my first color choice, green. I was shocked but now excited to start working on it.
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How do you adjust the preload on the rear shock? There is not much room to get any tool in there to spin the collar.
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Spanner method: Lift bike to take weight off rear shock. Remove seat, left side cover, airbox, rear fender and rear subframe. You now have room to use a spanner wrench. Drift method: Lift bike to take weight off rear shock. You can use a long standard screwdriver but you risk damaging the preload rings and/or shock threads. Better to buy a special tool for the job. |
The OEM spring is heavy duty (350lb/inch). If you try to turn the preload collar with a tool, it will probably damage the aluminum threads on the shock body, and definitely damage the indents on the collar made for the spanner.
It is easy to remove the shock. https://www.chinariders.net/showpost...1&postcount=22 And especially posts 12-14 here https://www.chinariders.net/showthread.php?t=31860 If you compress the spring with a coil spring compression tool, you can easily move the preload collar to any place you need to. Then release the spirng, done. Even if you don't lower the bike, this might actually be easier, and do less damage to the shock. |
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Taking it on and off multiple times to get the adjustment right seems like a pain. I’m only 150 lbs so it may be ok where it is for now. I’ll have to put some miles on it on the trails first. I only have 2 miles around a grass field so far. |
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Removing the shock is actually easy, but you have to remove the exhaust, and then remove the lower and upper shock mount bolts. The shock will slip through the upper gap on the right side.
But once you have it out, you need to compress the spring to tighten the collar. FYI, removing the seat, and battery tray, the air filter ass'y, and the rear frame is a monumental amount of work (I've done it!). I thought you need a hook wrench to tighten that collar like the one below (shock spanner). I wouldn't know how to use the straight tool. But once you have the shock off, you could not use this tool. Attachment 29056 Nothing easy about this! I was afraid of damaging the threads of that aluminum shock body, so I made a coil spring compressor from a car oriented compressor. |
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Another option here is to compress the spring in situ. |
OK. So it won't damage the threads. The KKE rear shock is built tougher than I thought.
As far as compressing the shock while still mounted, I could not find any tool that fit in there. I took mine off and backed it off from more than an inch to closer to 3/4". It certainly is a stiff spring. A ratcheting hook wrench could work if someone would invent and make one! |
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Do you have any info on the shorter 450mm Templar shock? I suspect it may have a softer spring since it's rated for a single rider only and the seat subframe doesn't look like it could carry a passenger. Do you think this tool might work? I was thinking that one side of a spring compressor might be used to take a lot of tension off the rings.I have one like this. |
3/8" drive spanner "wrench"! This looks promising for mounted access, because you can use a ratchet. Worth a try. It will still require continuous micro movements and resetting, but maybe...
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Maybe btr22 will test it out and let us know how it works?
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