Fitting coilovers-how difficult?

A1ex · Post by **A1ex** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 7:14 pm

yeah get it all up evenly. If you have a spare jack or when you get the axle stands in on the jack points uset the jack to lift the rear hub a little. This takes the force off the bolt and will make it easier to undo

Post by **cebul** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 7:24 pm

Here:

http://www.extremeprelude.com/GCcoilove ... stall.html

BMCC · Post by **BMCC** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:41 am

@ Cebul: Interesting use of a jack on the upper control arm! I think I'll just do what the comments says and remove the inner bolts so that the top arm can be removed out of the way.
Cheers for the info guys.

BMCC

A1ex · Post by **A1ex** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:53 am

That is an interesting use of the jack. BMCC, it could be worth doing that with the jack to help give you a bit of room to get the shock out once it's been un done. It is a bit tight

Post by **4thgenphil** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 7:17 pm

i found it easier to drop the ARB, its a squeeze still mind

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:09 pm

the fronts are body lemonade easy just undo the bottom bolt then the pich bolt on the fork remove the fork from the strut then undo the top bolts and it drops out

BMCC · Post by **BMCC** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:23 am

mercutio wrote:the fronts are body lemonade easy just undo the bottom bolt then the pich bolt on the fork remove the fork from the strut then undo the top bolts and it drops out

I found it a PITA nothing unfortunately just fell out for me. Everything had to be stood on pushed pulled etc

4thgenphil wrote:i found it easier to drop the ARB, its a squeeze still mind

Yes this gave me just enough room to get the damper out. Although the nut on the bottom the drop link would just turn rather than undo eventually the nut that fixes onto the ARB flew off and the arm dropped a bit

On that matter how do you replace to drop link? Looks like you have to press a bush into the arm etc. Can you do this jacking just one side up or does the whole front end need to be in the air?

Cheers,

BMCC

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:16 am

doing a droplink you either have both sides jacked up or both on the ground or you will end up loading one side with weight

BMCC · Post by **BMCC** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:19 pm

Ok so finally done! just need to get the geometry set up properly. Anyone got a 4WS locking pin I can borrow or buy?

Cheers,

BMCC

Post by **4thgenphil** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:22 pm

speak to mart609, he did have one iirc, if not he did have the drawings