Just a quick guide to fitting some lowering springs. Its easy enough, as long as you can un-do and do up bolts and you aint to shy, you can do this.
Couple of tools that you will need to do this job and to make it easier are a set of spring clamps, 7mm allen key and a ball joint breaker, all the other tools are things you should have anyway like breaker bars, sokets, ratchets, spanners etc.
So, youve got your springs but your cally still looks like this:
TOO HIGH!!!
So we need to fit some of these:
Ive gone for the -60mm's not for the faint harted lol
Right, we'll start with the more complicated end, the front.
First things first, get all your tools together so you havent gotta keep getting up blah blah and sort out the front springs
Now then, lets get our hands dirty, or if your not into that, get a pair of
Off with the wheel, you dont need a piccy for that, and then off with the steering arm ball joint
and then pop it off with the ball joint breaker
This will make life easier as you can now turn the leg.
whip the caliper off, its a 7mm allen key so make sure youve got one as they rarely come with sets, jus 2 bolts holding it on,
dont forget to pull out the pad sensor!
next you need to undo the wishbone ball joint at the bottom of the leg and get the ball joint breaker again
Next up is getting the leg off, at this point you need to get up and lossen but no completely undo the top hat mounting under the bonnet
then pull out the split pin
then undo the big nut!
then you need get the drive shaft out, now your gonna have to hit it, but please dont hit the thing directly with a bloody hammer, like my bro did, cause you will knacker the thread, like my bro did lol.
once you got the shaft out, get someone to hold the leg and undo the rest of the tophat so you can then take the leg out of its home, jus lie it down as the ABS will still be attached, you can undo this if you want, but you dont have to
Now you need to get the spring clamps out, this bit always makes me nervous, dunno why, jus something about it.
once youve got the spring clamped enough that you can move it about, undo the last bolt on the top hat
Take all the gubbings off so you can get the spring out
And here it is, the OE spring!
If your dropping 60mm its probably worth chopping down the bump stop, cause you may well be sitting on in lol.
No need to chop too much off.
The bump stop shoould just pull off the shock
bout this much should do lol
then put it back on.
The new spring should go on with out having to clamp it, but if your not going as low, you may have to.
Once the new spring is on
its just a matter of putting it all back together again and doing the other side.
Now then, time for a brew before we crack on with the back lol
Cheers mom!!
So its time for the rear springs
Now then, off with the back wheel
you have two options next, best bet is to go with the losest nut, either the top of the shock
or the bottom of the shock.
We went for the bottom cause they were both really tight and we could get Might Joe Bar on the bottom lol
When you got the shock off, the rear wishbone will be held up by the anti roll bar, all you need to do is add a bit of weight to get the old spring out,
and the old spring is out, as modeled by Dangerous Brian
As you can see, the new spring is considerably smaller than the new one
Pull that thing off top and put it on the top of the new spring then when your ready
sorry, at this point we were going a bit mad.
Add the fat b*stard, i mean weight again and in goes the new spring!!
Put it all back together and do the other side!!
Thats it, youve done it.
Take it round the block, make sure it feels right and theres no odd sounds and all is ok!!
Give it a couple of days to settle and your cally should be looking mint, like mine
Thanks and free plug to Dangerous Brian (my bro) From Dangerous Delepoments for doing most the work so i could stand around smoking and taking piccys lol.
