I recently upgraded the suspension on my 89 crx from the stock shocks and shitty ebay brand coilovers to some Kyb AGX shocks and Tein s-tech springs. I put them on this weekend and now im confused.

The front springs are smaller than the back, and it was obvious just by pushing on them that they had a higher springrate. But, my car is noticeably angled up! It's not horrible, but considering that it's supposed to lower it more in the rear than in the front anyways. What's wrong? I don't think I put the front on the back and the back on the front. but what else can it be?

Thanks in advance,
Alpalwal

 

youve set a new static ride height which the bushings need to be reset. loosen and retighten all the lower control arm bushings front and rear. the front upper a arms are a bit more difficult. but they should be done. youre otherwise ruining your bushings. but probably theyre all messed up anyway. not doing so just completes the ruining of them.

read the "NOTE" yourselves directly from the helms assembly instructions.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by IsBlueSmokeBad &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i second that. the steel inner sleeve is bonded to the rubber along with the steel outer sleeve. when you drop the car, the inner sleeve rotates in relation to the outer sleeve and ***** up the rubber. this will probably keep your car from going as low as it is supposed to with those springs untill the rubber in the bushings breaks down. when you replace them you can change over to energy suspension bushings. the center sleeve floats so this wont happen. but as far as the springs being wrong or whatever, it looks ok to me but i have nothing to compare it to except my skunk 2 coilovers.</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

you should set all your struts at 1 and drive around for a week or two.. you have to break in the springs also.. you dont happen to have metal strut covers under your springs do you? i had a problem with that on my tokicos.. the front wouldnt lower right because the metal strut cover was actually stuck on the strot body itself..

 

Tyson, that definitley sounds right.. especially because i've already taken off the lower control arm on the back but not on the front (i got a set of tie bars, and it was easier to just do the back with the springs.. but i'd already done the front.) So, I guess I'll loosen all that up and get it situated.

So, according to helms I need to just loosen the back damper up when its jacked up and then tighten it back down when it's under load?

Also, for the front control arms, just loosen them up and then tighten them again? or is there a step in between? And I do that when it's jacked up right? Sorry for all the questions, I'm new to suspension.

Thanks

 

loosen all the lower control arm bolts, jack the suspension underload, then retighten. that should help. maybe not entirely, but it does make a difference. sometimes the bushings are just worn and are too compliant and theres nothing that can be done other than replace em.

its also possible you didnt fully seat the springs in the perches. just more things to check.