[Shotimes] Front Strut R&R

[Ron Porter]

That is a HUGE "if" you can remove the tension strut nut!!

If someone can't pry out the strut without removing any other suspension
parts (doable probably 80-90% of the time), then I would do Paul's subframe
drop. Again, for those of us in corrosion country.

For all of the easy stuff that George has on his CA cars, ask him about
removing suspension pieces from Kris Angermeier's WI car at the Madison
Convention!!

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 1:44 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Front Strut R&R


I trust you that your method works.  But if you can remove the tension
strut nut and bushing the job is that much easier, and you don't even have
to disconnect it from the knuckle.  Just that little added stress relief
is enough to just put your foot on the knuckle and and with your weight,
knock the strut off.
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Thu, November 4, 2004 1:27 pm, Ron Porter said:
> Mike, why are you removing the tension rod nuts, anyway? I know that it's
> the way that George, in-the-land-of-no-rust-and-corrosion, does it but
> that
> stuff just doesn't work here in the Great Corroded North.
>
> I have removed the front struts on two cars with just jumping on a pry bar
> and whanging the knuckle with the lead hammer to get the strut clear.
> Removing more suspension parts is just adding to the grief!!
>
> Ron Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 8:16 AM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Front Strut R&R
>
>
> When I changed my front springs again here recently, I
> couldn't get the tension rod nuts loose at all.  Fearing the
> breakage of yet another part, I decided instead to remove
> the bolt that holds the control arm to the frame.  Much
> easier to get that out.  Then it just took some prying to
> move everything down far enough.  Definitely takes two
> people though.
>
>
> Mike Wojton
> Toledo, Ohio
>
>    -'95 White MTX
>       '96 Brake Upgrade
>       Eibachs (front)
>
> "Avoid the clap." - Jimmy Dugan
>
>
>
>
> shotimes-admin@autox.team.net wrote on 11/04/2004 02:12:06 AM:
>
>> 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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