No the shims are inserted before they put the cone on to align the coil in the gap.The tolerances can be so thight that just the slightest amount of miss alignment the sub will be junk!Just throw it away or use it as a big paper-weight.Or a giant refrigiator magnentNope, to align it I just beat the POS to knock the magnet side to side a little bit until the VC moves up and down good.
Did it last night.. epoxied the magnets on and got them aligned, then left them sit.. and when I checked them later the ****in magnet shifted and they locked up.
Grr, Is there anything I could use for shims or something?