Changing Struts
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Overview
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You can use this guide for either replacing your struts, or installing aftermarket ones.
Tools
- ratchet set
- philips screw driver
- adjustable wrench
- pliers
- impact wrench recommended
- Corona w/lime (not pictured)
Instructions
- Remove storage net and rear hatch cover
- Remove 5 philips screws securing rear strut cover trim
- Remove 2 philips screws and 3 10mm bolts securing strut cover
- Jack up your car
- Remove 4 13/16 lug nuts
- Remove 1 14mm nut from sway bar ball joint
- Note: If nut will not turn at first, use a crescent wrench or needle nose vice grips on the back side of the joint, at the end of the boot.
- Loosten 2 17mm nuts from bolts.
- Using a pair of pliers, remove the retainer clip from the brake line and move brake line out of the way.
- Remove 2 bolts from bottom of strut and allow to hang.
- Remove 3 12mm or 14mm nuts from the top of the strut.
- Remove strut from car.
- Place strut in spring compressor and compress spring.
- Remove 17mm bolt from top of spring.
- Note: Basically, here in the next steps you should make the new one look just like the old one did, just newer.
- Slide strut out from spring.
- Place rubber portion and dust boot from old strut assy onto new strut assy.
- Place new strut in spring/upper strut assy.
- Ratchet new nut on top of new strut.
- Decompress strut.
- replace strut
Installation is the reverse of removal
External Links
- Forum topic at rdtiburon.com
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