Fitted my new front springs today

[Aaron]

Well yesterday I was meant to go car selling. Down the highway and as if by magnetic attraction my car was yanked off the highway and ended up at MR Automotive.

I got LR 130 front springs, to fix my front end sag. Its tightened up the body roll etc.

old and new spring
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/07/246.jpg

almost level now.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/10/1049.jpg

The first side took... an hour or two:P the second side I had a eureka moment and did it in about 20. (maybe one day I will admit how I handled the first side:P)

140 dollars well spent IMO.

[rar110]

Wow $140 is a good price.

looks good.

[MacFamily]

Looks good Aaron best thing i ever did was replace mine with those springs..

When you say car selling you dont mean the Td5:o? Hope not....

Azza

[long stroke]

Looks great, good price to!!!

CHEERS TIM.

[Tombie]

1 hour :o :p

So at least you worked it out for the other side...

Assuming you have no trouble with siezed bolts / shock nuts... Its easy to change all 4 springs in under 1 hour.


Looks great.

[Aaron]

First side I couldn't get the lower shock nut undone because the body of the shock was rotating, which I tried to modify an oil filter rench to stop it. Ended up using a stilson, which worked a treat and it didnt even scratch the paint.

I ended up moving the whole shock/tower because I didn't relies you could move the shock to the top of its travel easily by hand :P then I compressed the spring because I didn't relies you could push down on the axle by hand to make that extra few cm of room need to yank the old spring out.

The only reason I worked out how to do it properly was because on the passenger side, I was about to do the same, but noticed some air con pipes traveling over the shock tower. So I sat and drank my cup of tea and worked it out.

Atleast I know now for when I put my D2 rubber retainers in.

So there it is. Another day in the life of my bad mechanics :P