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Shane Haverkamp
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Monday, March 11, 2013 - 02:12 pm, by:  Shane Haverkamp (Havabeer) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

hi everyone,

i'm just wondering if there's a certain trick to getting the rear tems style struts out.

i read somewhere you just need to lever the upper control arm and remove the strut

but F*** me i'm bending everything i own trying to get the bastard down low enough, breaker bars with longer cheater pipe on the end, handles other bits and pieces and i can't seem to get it down low enough.

any idea's? its obviously been done 1000 times before.
John Street
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Monday, March 11, 2013 - 02:34 pm, by:  John Street (Rex2ce) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

undo one end of the swaybar link each side,top or bottom, does'nt matter
Gavin Johnstone
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Monday, March 11, 2013 - 07:22 pm, by:  Gavin Johnstone (Zedrift) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Do you have airbag or coils ??

I just did the swap to coilovers 2mth ago and i think i remember dumping the air in the system so we could compress the shock ..

while im here i might be so bold as to ask if your situation has changed at work making it possible to do the accumulators again ??
Shane Haverkamp
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 03:35 pm, by:  Shane Haverkamp (Havabeer) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

had normal coils

shoot me a pm about the accumulator and i'll see what i can do.
Jan van Berendonk
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 06:37 pm, by:  Jan van Berendonk (Janjen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I dropped the diff end of the lower control arm, first marking the adjustment washer. If you can easily compress the shockers they are stuffed. Shockers are meant to be gas filled, would require more than your body weight to compress them at all!
Gavin Johnstone
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 10:11 pm, by:  Gavin Johnstone (Zedrift) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I was talking about the air shocks .. With all the air dumped from the system they cith no problemompressed w
Jan van Berendonk
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 06:27 pm, by:  Jan van Berendonk (Janjen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Gavin,
I replaced all my old airbags, with new units, at christmas, the old rears compressed under their own weight. The new air shocks were as hard as a rock, could not compress them at all with my body weight. The actual shockers are pressurised, the airbags only replace the springs, and only work once the air lines are connected and pressurised.
Gavin Johnstone
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Friday, March 15, 2013 - 02:50 pm, by:  Gavin Johnstone (Zedrift) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Mine were working perfectly .. I just changed to coilovers per my plan for the build ..
Jack Driver
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 09:05 pm, by:  Jack Driver (Jacko) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Jan van Berendonk wrote on Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 06:27 pm:

The new air shocks were as hard as a rock,



Sheiza Jan! The secondhand airbag units I got compressed with a bit of persuasion with no air in them but were no where near hard as a rock.
Maybe they're stuffed!
Jan van Berendonk
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 05:59 pm, by:  Jan van Berendonk (Janjen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Jack, I have a left front I took out of my car, which is in perfect condition, and right front that is on way out. You are welcome to come past and compare them if you like. I am in Altona, Melbourne.
Jack Driver
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 10:39 pm, by:  Jack Driver (Jacko) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hey, love to mate but I'm so ****ing busy I dont get to scratch sometimes.
Must work on that!

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