Omega Blaze

just wondering wat was the process.
cant find anything on the net about it.

iluvmy2000civicex

Yes you have to use spring compressors and take the stock springs off. The coilover sleeves go in the place of the stock springs.

Omega Blaze

What actually do the spring compressors do for the coilovers.
Stretch out the springs??

Crx Jimmy

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Stretch out the springs??</TD></TR></TABLE>

Gunmetal_B20_Hatch

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OMFG OMFG OMFG...

Im from Albany too... What car do you drive???

JDM_SOHC

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PLEASE MEET HIM, PLEASE HELP HIM..!!!! SOMEBODY PLEASE, ANYBODY..!!!!!!!

alphalanos

1. take shock/spring off
2. compress spring (as in make it shorter , compressed)
3. remove shock
4. install coil sleeve on shock
5. install new coil sleeve/shock

lillthingz

Make sure you take the compressor off evenly. You can rent them from autozone. They come with like 2 c clip compressors. It is kinda dangerous we used to shoot the springs in suto shop.

Gunmetal_B20_Hatch

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Stretch out the springs?
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Omega Blaze

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Cool!
95 Civic Dx
d15b7 usdm

Do you stay on the north?

4drkidd

Lol @ streching out the springs..

Anyways, all you gotta do is:
- Buy spring compressors
- Compress springs
- Unscrew the bolts on the top
- Remove springs
- Replace with ebay sleeves
- Screw back on the top
- Profit.

B serious

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lol @ fools that use spring compressors for stock civic springs.

You dont need that. Even if you did use it, you dont really use it to compress the springs. You just put a tiny bit of tension on it to take the energy out of the sping when you open up the top nut. You dont need to crush the spring at all...you're just wasting time.

You can even just take off the front shock fork, move your feet, open up the top nut without taking the shock out of the car and let the shock fly at the floor. Or use a jack underneath it if you want everything to come out slowly.

Same process for the back. Take off the LCA to shock bolt, pull the shock out of the way of the LCA a bit, put a jack underneath it, and take off the top nut. Release the jack slowly.

MUCH faster than a spring compressor.

The spring doesn't have that much energy in it anyway. You can take the whole thing off on your garage floor without a spring compressor. I've done it about 1 million times. Point away from your face and genitals. Keep your hand on the top of the wrench, aim the top mount at the garage wall's base so everything doesn't fly where you can't find it. That's my process.

OP: Once you lower the car, make sure you or whoever else is working on it clocks the bushings. If someone is helping you and they dont know what it is, LOL at them for not knowing what it is.

Your car will most likely give you a LOT of issues trying to install these. I can pretty much guarantee you that your rear suspension will not come apart without cutting, drilling, and other forms of barbarism. I have a write up on it. Do a search involving my screen name and the subject "stuck bolts".

After you take all the trouble to take it apart, you'll probably realize that the car rides like junk. If you're using stock shocks, it will ride like more junk. But the money you saved on not buying name brand parts can be spent on chiropractor appointments.

Don't waste your time, dude. Buy something nice before you take all the trouble of lowering the car.


Modified by B serious at 10:56 AM 8/5/2008