I hate stopping points!
04-27-2007, 10:17 AM
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RE: I hate stopping points!
Thanks for bringing this thread alive again! I completely forgot. After I got the internal spring compressor this install went 5000000x faster, took me about 30 minutes per side. But anyways, now I have Eibach Drag Springs (with 1 coil cut out of each one) in the frontand I'm running the FRPP C springs in the rear. I was told to run a soft spring in front, and hard spring out back, so I guess we'll see how she launches now. I can't really tell how much of a difference it made because our roads are soo muddy right now from this storm the most I have been able to do is take it up and down our driveway (which is only like 60-80 ft. long). So as soon as I get a chance to drive it (probably Saturday) I'll let you guys know.
04-27-2007, 11:29 AM
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RE: I hate stopping points!
It's very easy actually here's how I did it, some do it different though:
1. jack car up and secure it with a jackstand
2. Remove you wheel and place the jack under your front control arm
3. Remove the top strut nut so that the strut drops down through the CC plate (your jack is now holding up your control arm)
4. I then proceeded to disconnect my brake caliper and my tie rod end (just take the nut off of the tie rod end and give it a few smacks with a hammer, it'll eventually fall out of the spindle)
5. now that everything is disconnected slowly let down your jack (at this point some people like to use spring compressors, but I know that my C springs were small enough that they wouldn't come flying out so I didn't use it)
6. remove spring
7. place new spring in (compressed with the spring compressor)
8. raise jack slightly so that there is tension on the springand remove the spring compressor
9. reconnect brake caliper, tie rod end and strut
10. put the wheel back on and torque it and you're done!
That's how I did it, some do it differently and this probably isn't the safest method but it definentally worked quick for me! Also soak everynut and bolt that you are removing with knock 'er loose.
1. jack car up and secure it with a jackstand
2. Remove you wheel and place the jack under your front control arm
3. Remove the top strut nut so that the strut drops down through the CC plate (your jack is now holding up your control arm)
4. I then proceeded to disconnect my brake caliper and my tie rod end (just take the nut off of the tie rod end and give it a few smacks with a hammer, it'll eventually fall out of the spindle)
5. now that everything is disconnected slowly let down your jack (at this point some people like to use spring compressors, but I know that my C springs were small enough that they wouldn't come flying out so I didn't use it)
6. remove spring
7. place new spring in (compressed with the spring compressor)
8. raise jack slightly so that there is tension on the springand remove the spring compressor
9. reconnect brake caliper, tie rod end and strut
10. put the wheel back on and torque it and you're done!
That's how I did it, some do it differently and this probably isn't the safest method but it definentally worked quick for me! Also soak everynut and bolt that you are removing with knock 'er loose.
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