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Black BettyIm thinking I should just say **** it and cut the factory endlink right in half...Im not gonna need it, and if i ever revert to stock, ill simply get a new one
Im thinking I should just say **** it and cut the factory endlink right in half...Im not gonna need it, and if i ever revert to stock, ill simply get a new one
factory endlink is junk.. not sure what tools you have available, but vise grips, impact? pop the ball out of the joint and hold it.. but the nut off the other side so you can pull it through..
how would i pop the ball out of the joint? ive got just about everything, vise grips and impact i do have
and one more problem...I cant get the nut off the top of the rear strut. Ive been hitting it with an impact for about 30 min now, no luck. the other one took quite a while as well. the whole shaft of the strut spins
well, your not reusing the strut put vise grips on it?
to pop the joint you need to pry the endlink away from the sway bar, its in a plastic cup so it should break "fairly" easy.. if not you will need to cut the cup open to let it rip out when you pry..
I put it in a bench vise and 150psi of impact didnt help. Just blew air. had to grind that top nut off. got it all figure out thoughOriginally Posted by petrified.rabbit
Ok, one last question. How does the coil bolt up to the strut tower? The piece that fits on top of the front coils has a big pointy thing that sits super high above the strut tower, and there is about 1" of play up& down with the top nut + rubber/metal washer thing installed
I ran into similar problems the other day when doing my struts, I ended up chopping the endlinks in half and removing them from the sway bar side of the thing.
I think I also share the most recent problem, and I think a reason may be because the nut holding everything in place may be 'longer' then the original one making the top piece sit higher. Sometimes this can be a sign of a bad strut mount, but I feel like in our situation it's just a matter of the top piece not being able to go any lower because the nut holding the coilover together (literally) is too tall. This is why that gap may be there.
if i am reading your problem correctly, i think it is because you have the coil spring set low on the coil.. the strut itself is good for a range of height, so when unloaded, the strut will expand.
If you can push it down onto the spring, and they touch (via compressing the strut) then you are fine, it you cannot, then something is wrong.
Ok, now ive got serious problems. Me being the idiot I am, put all the coils on set as low as they go, thinking it is as high as they go... Now Ive got one side about 1" off the ground from the jack point, and the other about 2 1/2", with my jack unable to go under either side, and my factory scissor jack stuck under the side that is 1" off the ground
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