Ouch. Well I used spring compressors in the front, but not for the back (since I gave them back to buy a breaker bar). anyway, I when I loosened the springs up (from the top mount), I made sure I was safely in the back seat of the car when I made them Pop.
Originally posted by nak1 thats just plain stupid! i know a guy who got his forearm snaped like a twig cause he did the same sort of thing. and that was lucky. he didnt die!
BTW, I was safely inside the car when I let the pressure off the spring. There was no way I was getting near the spring when I got it to pop. There was no way I could have snapped my arm.
man, If you're going to flame me for doing it the only thing I could, than FUCK YOU. I couldn't get the bottom bolt undone AT ALL, so my only option was to do it that way or go to a shop with the money THAT I DON'T HAVE. I took every step to make sure that I wouldn't hurt my car or myself. Being that the spring was still basically in place, the only things I could have hurt were my shocks because they had to bounce back in the other direction, but those shocks are are fine and soon to be outta here anyway. You got any more complaints on my methods?
You know what, I dont want to fight will you about this or anything else. I could stoop down and start curseing at you but i wont. When it comes to doing something like modding a car it takes money to do it right. If you can not accept that then you will never be a good tuner. You can take a short-cut here and there and be fine, but one of these days it could bite you in the butt. If you dont have the money, make it.. I know it can be hard sometimes, but it ends up being worth waiting for that next one or two pay-checks to do it right. Didnt you say in another post(about the GADET vs. SR swap) that if your going to do something, do it right. Take your own advice. Please calm down, I just dont want to see anyone get hurt. You may have very well been safe in your car, but how would you feel if someone didnt know you were in your car and took your advice, popped the nut off and took a spring in the face? I think we need to drop the attitudes, both of us. I am apologizing to you 1997 GA16DE if I have upset you. When you see my attutude in the other thread(HS email) It is in no way directed soley at you. It jsut really upsets me that a lot of people have put a lot of time into building something that so many of us have wanted for so long and then people come along and dis them. When someone says turboing the GA is not worth it, wheather they relize it or no they are throwing down a major dis to those fine peeps who have worked their asses off and spent alot of their hard earned money to make the kit a reality.
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Ok, we settled that little thing in the other thread. here's my response to this one:
I don't want to fight either, but I don't like beeing looked down upon like I'm an idiot or that I don't know what I'm doing. I might be somewhat new but ever since I've had my car, I've been practically living and breathing cars. All of these posts to the left I've written in less than a year and no, it's not from the off topic. I still don't know everything and I never will but when I attempt to do something to my car, I make sure I know everything I can. When I did that "dangerous" spring pop to my back springs, I would never refer to that as a short cut. I did that as a last resort and it worked out just fine. When I stripped the lower bolt, I had no way to remove the assembly. With no more money at the time, I had 2 choices...either redo the front and give up (b/c I already had the front ones on) or figure out a way to make it work. after taking in all the aspects, I found that it was perfectly safe for me and the car to go ahead and do it that way. After it was over and done, I got the same result as any other method. And I never told anyone to do it that way.
Guys, I had the same problems too. It took me over 6 hours just to fight with two knuckle bolts. The upper one finally came off, but the bottom one didn't. However, the nut on the bottom came off, but it bolt refused to move. I guess it didn't like 10w30 oil or probably it wasn't geasy enough. I think I'd rounded the bottom bolt's head a little. I'd tried to hammer the darn thing but it still won't move.
So what would you guy suggest, any comments would be helpful? I do have a 22" long torque wrench and a 21" long corilla lug wrench but neither seems to do the job. I know I can't flame the bolt since the present strut is a Gas strut, it might explode on me.
Do you guys think I should compress the spring down and try it? Right now I am just following the Hayes' instruction. It didn't mentioned anything about compressing the spring at all at this stage since I all I wanted to do is take the strut off. Wouldn't that makes more sense to compress the spring since the spring is putting a lot of force down right through the strut to knuckle joints where these two bolts are getting a lot of pressures?
LOL, look at this old thread. Ahh, the good ol days where me and Pat Scott would fight like cats and dogs .
it sounds like the bolt is held in from the pressure of the spring pushing down on the unit could be holding it in. It might be worth a shot to use the compressor to relieve the pressure on the bolt so you can pull it out. So you've already tried tapping the bolt out with a hammer?
When I did my rear lower bolt (finally) my breaker bar did nothing. It was so cross threaded, that I used a hacksaw to remove that lower bolt. Keep in mind, I already went to Nissan before hand to pick up all the bolts. As long as you already got the nut off, all that's left is trying to jiggle the bolt out.
So a lot of people are having problems with removing shocks and springs. I guess most of you never replaced a Civic hatch(92-95)suspension, coz its even worse than our car.
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