Well I finally got the large bolt off my last suspension (im doing the front right now) so I was able to get the old struts out... So now its easy sailing from here I thought.... Wrong...

Anyways when I try and put the large bolt on after putting in the tokico blue the large nut cannot go down far enough in order for the threads to catch... This is without even the washer or anything just the nut. So what do I do? Both of them are like this. Do I cut part of the nut off or what?

 

Are you referring to the thread on top of the strut? the part that slides into the strut tower?

 

the nut that hold the strut into the housing... Not the strut tower one... I took a couple pictures ill try to upload them...

well this is great its not even letting me upload pictures right now... great timing.

 

K heres some pictures of what im talking about... The picture shows how much further the nut has to travel even though the bottom of the shock is bottomed as far as it will go.

 

Dan
Is the nut from Tokico or stock?

 

The nut is stock, my package from RB didn't have any different nuts for anything like this...

 

omg wacky you make me feel so dumb... Haha I just went outside and looked at the box from RB again and sure enough the nut was taped to the opposite side of the box and I didn't see it...

Thanks a million I really appreciate the help!

 

So, how do you like those blues?, anyway? Were you using stock until this? I'm curious as my chassis has over 250,000 miles and "probably" due for new shocks. I have Eibach springs since 2001, but still have stock shocks. Please post if you feel a dramatic difference.

 

Ya so far my car has been riding on stock suspension I figured it was time for a upgrade now that I have 200k km's on the car. Ill make sure to post what the car feels like when its all back together... Still alot of work to go

 

cool. i just put new shocks and springs in my car too. (tokico blues and rb springs) the feel is dramatic. cant tell anyone how it handles yet cuz im riding on a spare.

how does ur car feel dan?

 

Like I was saying the way my car is sitting right now is without front tires and a paintjob... like 6 inch rust holes waiting to have fresh metal welded in...

 

Sounds like things are moving along well, Dan...

 

Don't forget to put an ounce or 2 of oil in the tubes. Your shocks will last a lot longer.

 

If any of you dudes do much "spirited" driving you'll like 'em, even with relatively stock springs.

Especially if you're riding around on 100k mile stock stuff like I was...

 

lol. no worries, that happened to me also...when I was a rookie. Im also running tokico blues with uncut tokico springs.