I want to adjust my sway away 2.0 coilovers, but the threads are quite rusty. I'm rather disappointed by the amount of rust as even though they are about 4 or 5 years old, they don't have a lot of road miles on them. Here is what they look like on my 4Runner:



I'm guess I should leave them alone or replace them.

Any other thoughts or comments?

 

Lol. You can try but I'd use liberal amounts of some sort of pb blaster or rust penetrant for at least 2-3x a day for a week. Doubt it will help. Probably looking at a replacement.

 

Mine look like that too. I should say they DID look like that before I got them rebuilt. I couldn't budge the rings on mine to adjust them or take them apart simply because of the rust. I sent mine to HPST racing to have them rebuilt and they did a great job. I ended up putting new springs on mine as the old ones had fatigued some. How do the stainless shafts look? I put about $350 into mine to get them in good shape (lots of new parts), but I still have the original rings and threaded bodies that are rusted. I should have had them replace those too.

If you want to adjust but can't on your own, you could pull them and take them to a race or motocross shop to see if they could do it. It's pretty embarassing that Sway A Way used materials that could age so quickly. I won't be buying from them again.

 

Thanks for the replies.

I checked out your build thread and my shafts do not look as good as yours did in the before shot. They have not been cleaned, but they appear to have a coating of grease on them taking away any kind of shine.

How long did it take HPST to turn yours around? I found the sway away site has parts listed, but I can't find an exploded diagram showing the exact part names so I would know what to order. I tried to get to the HPST website but it would not open for me. Not sure what is up there.

 

I ran into the parts problem as well since I like to do my own work when I can. You have to know the lingo I guess for each piece of the puzzle. My turnaround was ~a week (Utah to Cali) with about $30 shipping each way. I called daily to see what the progress was, and Robert was cool about it. Their prices were cheaper if I remember correctly, and there didn't seem to be a fee to install new parts since it was all part of the rebuild anyway. Robert was pretty forthcoming, and I'd deal with HPST again. The website is http://hpstracing.com/ and I got it to open just now. You'll probably just have to email some pictures and let him know what you want for a quote.