Walkthrough For Installing Springs?
02-19-2006, 03:43 PM
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rears are a piece of cake on the other hand the fronts are a PITA gettin the assembly out from the lca in the front just use a pry par and hammer and an extra hand and you shouldnt havea problem
02-21-2006, 03:00 PM
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The front passenger side is the bitch. Extra tools I needed were various grinders, multiple cutoff wheels, vice, 4 lb. sledgehammer, lots of penetrating lube. I ended up cutting the shock into about 5 pieces and the stock spring in two trying to get the hat off of the shock. The two parts had fused together. Would have gotten the whole install done in 3.5 hrs. if it weren't for that.
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02-22-2006, 12:47 AM
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yeah, we cut the strut itself to get that fvcker apart...passenger side like stated above. those damn nuts were so fvckin rusted, we even used penetrating lube...let the nut sit in a puddle for about an hour and it still didn't work. so we torched it off and that solved the problem.
02-22-2006, 09:11 AM
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The JMX web page has a very good explaination of the spring swap. See below.
http://www.ls1howto.com/
http://www.ls1howto.com/
02-23-2006, 10:58 PM
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help!! i am doing an install right now... i bought a set of gabriel shocks to go with my eibachs. the bottom tray on the gabriel is too small for the spring to set in. 
what now?!!
what now?!! 
