[Shotimes] Front Strut R&R

[Ron Porter]

But this is why everyone should get the new subframe bolt kit. Besides
giving you the rubber floor plugs over the rear nuts, the supplied nuts are
much beefier than the originals.

For Great White North cars, Paul's subframe-drop method sounds good if you
can't get the strut clear via the usual methods.

On the old green car, I had one nasty strut that turned out to have a cocked
strut mount (looks like from the factory) that made it a real PITA to remove
(ended up using a spring compressor with the spring in the car!!).

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Carl Prochilo
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 11:20 AM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Front Strut R&R


Yes, that would have the same basic effect.  The only negative about that
on older SHOs is that rust will cause the subframe retaining nut tabs to
fail.  The end result is that the nut will spin freely and cause you a
myriad of new headaches.  BTDT.
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Thu, November 4, 2004 10:24 am, Paul Nimz said:
> On my '97 I will loosen the subframe bushings on the side I am working on
> and drop the subframe another inch or so.  The strut will easily slide out
> of the knuckle then.
>
> Paul Nimz
> '97 TR
> '93 EG mtx
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl Prochilo" <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org>
> To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 6:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Front Strut R&R
>
>
>> What I told Robert was that the real trick to get that last bit of
>> clearance was to remove the tension strut bushing.  That bugger will
>> keep
>> the knuckle from moving, even with the nut removed.  Since the bushing
>> is
>> pressed in, it takes a good bit of time to remove it without damaging
>> it.
>> Once the bushing was out, there was enough play to drop the knuckle
>> enough
>> to get the strut out.
>>
>> BTW, this in no way follows the official service manual procedure for
>> this
>> job...
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Carl Prochilo
>> 92 Ultra Red Crimson
>>
>> On Thu, November 4, 2004 2:12 am, George Fourchy said:
>>> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:45:08 -0500, ROBERT SCHIRMER wrote:
>>>
>>>>I swear my problem must have been
>>>>getting the steering knuckle bolt loose enough, so that thde strut
>>>> could
>>>> slide
>>>>off???
>>>
>>> No...I think it was getting the tension strut bushing loose enough so
>>> that
>>> you could
>>> slide the whole thing back off of it and give yourself some more
>>> downward
>>> movement
>>> on the knuckle.  Once it slides a bit, it will slide all the way, as
>>> long
>>> as rust
>>> hasn't destroyed the bottom of the strut.
>>>
>>> George
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