Konis fitted

emexv · Postby **emexv** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:40 pm

I ordered a set of Koni coilovers from the States about 4 weeks ago and they finally arrived on Friday. One hiccup along the way..........first time I have ever been stung for duty on anything I have bought from the states. Added and extra 300 smackers to the bottom line......oh well it's only money.

Sunday was the day and after a sleep in I hit the shed about 11am. Only ran into two snags.

The first was seperating the top hat from the originals so they could be re-used. I used a method that would have made Workcover shudder...but I thought it was safe :lol:

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The second was seperating the lower ball joint on the front. Stuffed around for ages until finally the old Holden lowering days came back to me. Gave the steering knuckle a few hits in the RIGHT spot and there was no stopping from there :roll:

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By 4pm I was sitting back admiring the new stance downing a well earned ale (which turned into half a d fairly quickly). Might as well have a beer as the battery was flat so couldn't test dive her anyway. :oops:

Didn't have time to pull her out tonight so tomorrow arvo will be test time and wheel alignment on Wednesday. The real test will be on Saturday :mrgreen:

wun911 · Postby **wun911** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:42 pm

I installed my suspension a few weeks ago, I also had problems...

Did you use a couple of coat hangers as spring compressors?

I also had to hack my old shocks with an angle grinder to get them out...

Its all good though well worth the trouble..

emexv · Postby **emexv** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:24 pm

wun911 wrote:II also had to hack my old shocks with an angle grinder to get them out...

WOW and I thought I was rough. :lol:

I didn't have to do anything so drastic. Just seperated the ball joint and then pushed the lower control arm out with my foot. The strut assembly came out without a problem.

I didn't compress the old spring. This was my method for removing the tophat.

1. 6 foot length of 90x45mm pine
2. Pleace strut on groud outside shed.
3. place pine over strut below spring
4. fit 2 foot lenth of vacuum hose over ratchet handle
5. stand on one end of pine and get sucker 16 year old son to stand on the other.
6. using lengthened ratchet undo nut (keep out of the way) &(and keep the dog out of the way :lol:

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BANG and it's all apart. Worked 4 times and still have all my digits so mus'nt be to dangerous.