Ok, went to the wreckers today and found a series 2 with king springs in it, lowered progressive wound springs. Very clean,look great. Was thinking of grabbing them as I have to change my shocks anyway, wanted to just grab the springs and the top mounts and bump stops though. How hard will it be to disassemble the struts on the ground at the wreckers while im there, to just grab the springs and stuff off? Will i still have to use a spring compressor as they are lowered? seriously considering this as they will only be 17 dollars each! Just thinking its probably not a good idea with stock shocks, as they dont work well together i remember being told, and i have in my garage brand new gas shocks and struts 4 the back... Would it work well? how hard to pull them out?
I'd just take the whole strut assembly from the car. Wouldn't even bother tearing them apart. But if you really wanted, you'd need the spring compressors to get the job done.
Would be 160 for the whole struts though, more than double the cost for what I dont need! anyway went this morning, got the front springs out, front bump stops and mounts for strut. Lef thte springs there though, couldnt even drop the rear struts out, didnt have right size spanner sockets...wtf...series 2 i knew was different but i tried all the imperial and metric sizes, they are like 10.5 or 11.5mm........ got lots of other goodies though...
Huh? Spanner socket... Its a 12mm to remove the three top bolts and a 19mm to remove both the bolts holding the strut to the rear spindle. Set of dykes gets you through the brake line and the struts out. 17mm and spring compressors from there.
Just re-reading what I wrote, I got the top nut size confused with the actual bolt shaft size of the lower bolts. Go with what CrazyAchmed wrote
Yea, just couldnt get the top 3 bolts holding the rear struts in. Someone had obviously put the wrong ones back in or something, pretty sure they werent 12mm. Whats interesting is the springs were short as, i didnt need the compressors....hence why i didnt bother grabbing them in the end, could have gone back... Not going to go back, stock springs and new shocksa re going in tomorrow. Thanks guys
I found I could have gotten away without a compressor when I put my lowering springs together as well
