Front strut removal and spring change

PukkaSilvia · #1 09-02-2006, 18:39

Nice write-up Adz.

10 points to slytherin

datdrift · #2 05-03-2006, 17:00

i had to change my front struts to put my ones with lowered springs and better shocks/disks in, and the bolts in them were all rock solid, i think they hadent been undone for about 10 years

so i wd40 them and left to soak for a night, got 3 of the 17mm bottom bolts out and then one rounds off on me

so i had to cut the bolt head off and beat it and the strut out......got there in the end tho.....

alundra · #3 05-03-2006, 17:21

For the front strut I have only the cartridge (KYB Gr2); how change them?

datdrift · #4 05-03-2006, 17:23

i dunno, the shocks arent uprated, but just in better con then the ones already on there.......

northerner · #5 05-03-2006, 19:20

Alundra, basically you need to empty the Inner part of the original strut of Oil and the piston rod. Then drill a hole in the bottom of the strut so that when you insert the cartridge you can bolt it in place to the original housing. Then put large nut back on the strut, hey presto...

datdrift · #6 05-03-2006, 22:50

has anybody on here tried putting auto transmission fluid in their front shocks as on silvia gods site, to firm them up.....?

umpkin · #7 06-03-2006, 21:04

i had ep80/90 in my front struts on my mk2 escort, made em solid as fook!!!!