More to get room underneath to work on them. although if you can reach
the bolts/nuts you don't need to jack it up. Once you undo a mount they
can be pushed in or out to get them out of the way. They are not
"structural" so you can unbolt them, push the strut in/out to fit or
miss the mounting points. If you let the wheel drop down it will give
you a bit more room to work in there. The new ones are shipped with a
plastic strap to keep them from extending, it might be easiest to attach
the top loosely then cut the strap and let it extend (it does it slowly)
then guide it into the bottom mount. You can compress them again if you
need to but it takes a bit of ooomph and they want to keep extending
while you are messing with them in there. Some shocks have a plastic
bumper thing on the rod at the top, see if your car has that and note
how they are arranged to get the new one on right (if you need it).
--R
Dimitri Seretakis wrote:
So I only need to Jack the car up for th purposes of extending the shocks to be
able to remove and replace them?
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On Oct 2, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net>
wrote:
You can extend the shock strut/rod to fit on the attachments, I don't think you need to worry too much about supporting the LCA unless you want it up higher with the car jacked up to where you can get under (or do it on ramps).
--R
Dimitri Seretakis wrote:
I'm still troubleshooting my glow plugs and in the meantime would like to
replace the shocks on my car. I've never done this before. Reading the
bilstein instructions they talk about supporting lower control arm. Does this
mean that I need two jacks, one for control arm and one to Jack up the car?
Anyone know the procedure for this job?
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