greenguy
08-15-2003, 05:39 PM
Well I was haveing alot of noise with my front suspension, but the car drove beautifully so I needed to find out what was what.
After doing some research I found that I left the top bearing out of both struts. This item alows the struts to move freely when I want to turn. After removing the whole left side and completeing the fix I figured out how to remove just the top without removing the whole assy.
This is done by removing the centerbolt on the top of the strut tower under the hood. Then jack the car up, remove tire, move spring perch all the way to bottom to relieve spring tension. The useing the bumpstop as a grip, i was able to compress the shock enuf to get the top spring perch off to get the bearing on. \Now there is NO noise at all and car drives even better!
Here is the driverside pillow mount. note the metal on metal scraping that was occuring.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/pff5d321d243576f8cd2e7344f839829a/fb60ea4a.jpg
Here is the top spring mount where the metal onmetal contact was happening...ouch!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/pf40430931ca364e510a43c01ea5b11d1/fb60ea47.jpg
Here is the test fit. And it fits:D
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/p55ae52f1df283ce3333232275a6a3dfe/fb60ea39.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/pc0b4d7c5e0a2a8aac41537cbead37854/fb60ea51.jpg
I greased everything up very liberally!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/p6664c22af873a89ae84c1f3a1f88ea5b/fb60ea27.jpg
I use this stuff to lube everything. Its made of tefflon and its expensive as hell! This tube is coutesy of *********!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/p1efb02cc4873babaa87ad056173e92ea/fb60ea59.jpg
How in the hell did we think that this could possibly be right???
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/p4003b3fe1204373b73bbd1ba438c4f28/fb60ea2b.jpg
This is how it should be. Fits like a glove!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/p5df4a51b72d3001b0c30d13d5fd6dd40/fb60ea2d.jpg
Well that's about it. Hope this helps anyone else with noise or fitment issues.
BTW: My bearing was plastic so fitment was perfect. I guess there is a metal bearing that could give some poeple fitment troubles.
Thanks to ALL who offerd there advise! It was well appreciated!:)
After doing some research I found that I left the top bearing out of both struts. This item alows the struts to move freely when I want to turn. After removing the whole left side and completeing the fix I figured out how to remove just the top without removing the whole assy.
This is done by removing the centerbolt on the top of the strut tower under the hood. Then jack the car up, remove tire, move spring perch all the way to bottom to relieve spring tension. The useing the bumpstop as a grip, i was able to compress the shock enuf to get the top spring perch off to get the bearing on. \Now there is NO noise at all and car drives even better!
Here is the driverside pillow mount. note the metal on metal scraping that was occuring.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/pff5d321d243576f8cd2e7344f839829a/fb60ea4a.jpg
Here is the top spring mount where the metal onmetal contact was happening...ouch!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/pf40430931ca364e510a43c01ea5b11d1/fb60ea47.jpg
Here is the test fit. And it fits:D
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/p55ae52f1df283ce3333232275a6a3dfe/fb60ea39.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/pc0b4d7c5e0a2a8aac41537cbead37854/fb60ea51.jpg
I greased everything up very liberally!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/p6664c22af873a89ae84c1f3a1f88ea5b/fb60ea27.jpg
I use this stuff to lube everything. Its made of tefflon and its expensive as hell! This tube is coutesy of *********!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/p1efb02cc4873babaa87ad056173e92ea/fb60ea59.jpg
How in the hell did we think that this could possibly be right???
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/p4003b3fe1204373b73bbd1ba438c4f28/fb60ea2b.jpg
This is how it should be. Fits like a glove!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid74/p5df4a51b72d3001b0c30d13d5fd6dd40/fb60ea2d.jpg
Well that's about it. Hope this helps anyone else with noise or fitment issues.
BTW: My bearing was plastic so fitment was perfect. I guess there is a metal bearing that could give some poeple fitment troubles.
Thanks to ALL who offerd there advise! It was well appreciated!:)