by "Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)" (bman76-4)
Published 06/10/2017 at 01:17
by "Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)" (bman76-4)
Published 06/10/2017 at 01:17
Tags: A guy with a mullet wouldn't have designed it that way
; Fuck you 90's GM engineer
; Ima just buy a Lotus 7 so I can reach all the damn suspension bits
STARS: 3
Or... at least half the new...
Swapped out the rear OEM Delphi shocks for some new Bilsteins. Took like 45 minutes (mostly because I didn’t have a ratchet wrench) and was super easy and straight forward.
Got to the front and... well... fuck that shit. First of all the Bilstein/SLP shocks came with jack shit for instructions. Second, whichever GM engineer designed the front suspension should be taken behind the shed and shot. Couldn’t even get both spring compressors on the spring and the whole assembly is a hard to disassemble clusterfuck (two of the four bolts are torx heads and are under the master cylinder...wtf).
So, I’m gonna run mismatched at AutoX on Sunday and pay a shop to fuck with it next week, because I’m not about to play around with that coilover, that shit is scary.
On a positive note, the new rears feel amazing. I’m sure it’ll be even better with the fronts swapped too :)
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
06/10/2017 at 01:46, STARS: 1
Bill Steen
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
06/10/2017 at 01:54, STARS: 1
New ones for the front will make such a big difference you’ll wonder why you waited so long
"facw" (facw)
06/10/2017 at 02:41, STARS: 0
It’s always tempting, and mine are probably old enough it would be good to replace them, but spring compressors are scary, and Bilstein only makes black ones for my car, none of that stylish yellow (I could get KONI rears for about $100 more a piece than the Bilsteins, which doesn’t seem like a great move).
"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave)
06/10/2017 at 09:10, STARS: 2
There are many designs of spring compressor. About once a year none at work seem to fit for a job and the guys get me to bring in my 1976 compressors that came from JC Whitney. They are the heavy duty all-thread type with “safety” u- bolts but can be configured to work on almost anything. Dangerous? Yes! Scary? Yes! Sometimes can’t use the clamps? Yes! But they get the job done.
"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave)
06/10/2017 at 09:22, STARS: 1
Now you know what shop techs go through. The newer engineers often don’t give a crap about repairs. Seems like the main concern is sometimes assembly time and not servicing anything later. Its also why some jobs on one car have cheap labor and others are out of this world. The one that you can ask any Ford tech about is the old Taurus heater cores that took 12 hours to replace. GM and others have had their share of IDGAFHLIT type things too.
"DirtyBird" (cherry85ss)
06/13/2017 at 15:14, STARS: 0
Take the two nuts off and pull the master off and to the side