Dynapar and I will be assembling his new suspension Fri afternoon and were thinking of coming out after if that goes well. Anyway, will there be anyone there? It sounds like you guys go pretty much every week but we thought we'd post first.
I would but I'm leaving to go up north and go camping all weekend on Friday morning Good luck with the suspension work; you got a big braker bar right?! gooooood....
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by cowboybebop I'll be there hopefully the reserve cops don't kick us out at 10:30 like they did 2 weeks ago. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> They looked like retired janitors posing as cops. I don't think they even carried pepperspray.
there were ummm some minor difficulties on the installation process[xx(] just ask chux. we started at maybe 5:10. the fronts when in easy. only hard thing was disconnecting the brake lines to get the struts out, aong with another wierd clip deally. basically easy. alright so the fronts look good now to the backs. first off take of the tire, and mess witht he brakes. then look for the top bracket fro the strut. cant see it from the trunk sp it must be under the trim. look it up in trusty chiltons. "Remove seat assembly" great. gota take out the whole back seat and trim. next remove the 12 mm nuts on top. all good. then time to remove the bolts that secure the strut to the rotor. put the impact wrench on it and it didnt budge. we ran the o2 compressor out of air like 3 times. then came the liquid wrench. hosed that on there. got the 19mm box end wrench on it and a hammer. didnt move one bit. however alot of dried mud did fall from the bottom of my car. no more ideas, its about 9 o clock now. we gave up. bleed the brakes and put the back seat assembly back in. yar.... to be continued.
well, not much else to say, but I'm still mad, That's so frustrating, maybe we shook it loose some, HA. we'll try again some other time, but the front ones worked well, we're pretty proud of that. should make for some interesting handling in the meantime
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Dynapar there were ummm some minor difficulties on the installation process[xx(] just ask chux. we started at maybe 5:10. the fronts when in easy. only hard thing was disconnecting the brake lines to get the struts out, aong with another wierd clip deally. basically easy. alright so the fronts look good now to the backs. first off take of the tire, and mess witht he brakes. then look for the top bracket fro the strut. cant see it from the trunk sp it must be under the trim. look it up in trusty chiltons. "Remove seat assembly" great. gota take out the whole back seat and trim. next remove the 12 mm nuts on top. all good. then time to remove the bolts that secure the strut to the rotor. put the impact wrench on it and it didnt budge. we ran the o2 compressor out of air like 3 times. then came the liquid wrench. hosed that on there. got the 19mm box end wrench on it and a hammer. didnt move one bit. however alot of dried mud did fall from the bottom of my car. no more ideas, its about 9 o clock now. we gave up. bleed the brakes and put the back seat assembly back in. yar.... to be continued. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Took me, lee, fuji, and fong 12hrs for mines . Heres a little suggestion. Dont bleed your barkes. Instead cut the strut guides for the barke lines. They should be bendable after they are cut. then guide the lines through those cut guides...
Sounds like yall had a rough time with the suspension parts They are real buggers to say the least. How many PSI was the air compressor cranked to when using the impact wrench? I had some strut bolts on my GL wagon that 95 PSI wouldnt even budge. That bolt was no match for my breaker bar and 4' cheater I'm no strong burly guy but leverage is your friend. Also an oxy/acedeline torch can really help. When are you guys working on it again? I could come by with the cheater and torch if you need an extra hand
The two strut bolts that hold the suspension to the front axle should be torqued to ~112 ft/lbs. On a GC Impreza at least...
My compressor runs at about 75-80 psi, so it had some pretty good poundin'. We'll definately let you know before we try it again, we're going to try it at a place with a commercial compressor so that should take care of it}
If you think 112 ft/lbs is a lot, try installing an anit-lift kit onto a GC. It needs to be 137 ft/lbs for the self-locking nut, and 181 ft/lbs for the two bolts that hold the ALK to the car.
