Originally posted by Zak8022
the main peice of equipment you need is a spring compressor. i dont want this to come off mean, but it will anyways.....how much have you actually worked on a car before? i wouldnt really go messin around with your suspension unless you know what you are doing. just a warning, im not flaming you. there are tons of articles out there on changing shocks and such. try a google search, and i am sure there is something on CC about it....tho i havent really looked in a while on that topic.
Listen to Zak8022 about this one... in theory, replacing your struts will be easy, in practice, not so much.
Basically what you have to do is get a spring compressor.. I have no idea where you can rent one in the states though (good old Canadian Tire). Now be careful with this thing, cuz if you don't use it properly then you could launch the spring into your abdomen and that would be the end of your modding days...
So you compress your spring so that your strut just sort of hangs there, next you loosen a bolt on the bottom of your strut, near a peice that looks like an upside down "Y", and another bolt neat the top of your strut. This may be a little different depending on what year your car is (Um I hope I'm not missing anything), then you basically pull the whole assembly out (make sure to disconnect the brake line).
Now you can take off the spring and you pop off the mounts from the strut (with a rubber mallet) and then reverse engineer everything.
But be careful... when I tried to do this to my Integra, I ended up giving up cuz my bolts were too seazed to do anything with them. My mechanic ended up welding them off and replacing them. These bolts go under a lot of stress... after all, a whole car is sitting on them, right?
Good luck with whatever you decided to do!
.:SiR:.
