what do i have to do to put my coil overs on my 98 civic ex coupe?

 

Buy them?

 

thats a start

 

You also need a thing call a "camber kit"!

 

u dont need camberkits although its better to have them if ur goin to slam ur ride.

 

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Yeah, u don't need a camber kit, the inside of ur tires'll just wear down at an exponentially fast rate, smart .

If you're going to slam it, get a camber kit, asside from that, SEARCH. There's walkthroughs here on H-T as well as the rest of the internet. I mean I find it obvious that ur asking for step by step instructions - search for them. Read up about what you're actually doing - then do it yourself.

 

front
1. take the wheel off
2.take the front axle nuts off
3.take the kastle nut off from under the arms and pop it loose
4.take the two bolts off the top of the struts
5.may have to take axle out.. just depends
6.put the the coilovers in were u took the sturts out from
7.put it back together.....
back...
1.take wheel off
2.take sturt loose from lca
3.if u have stock sway bar u might have to take it loose
4.take the two bolts on top of strut off(located in trunk or hatch)
5.put coilover in
6.put back together

i might of fogot something.... im not much of a visiuallizer i have to have it infront of me but i think i got it all.....

 

Next step is installing them. For which you will need to take the stock shock/spring assemblies and transfer some parts to the new pieaces (wanted to say units but that would sound wrong).
To remove you just unbolt the top bolts, then the bottom ones (one on each side on the rears, and one on the front). To remove the fronts you'll need to take the forks attached to shock off first, or the shock wouldnt come out.
And I found it easier to have the top nuts (sounded wrong again), still attached a little bit, so that it is easier to reomve the lower bolts without worrying about the whole thing just falling down.
Took me about 1.5 hr, from the minute I pulled the car in, till I came back from a test drive. Avtual work probably took about 1 hr. with powertools. Now I can prolly do all 4s in under half an hour.

 

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i might of fogot something.... im not much of a visiuallizer i have to have it infront of me but i think i got it all.....</TD></TR></TABLE>

That about sums it up.

 

Air tools help a TON.

 

The top bolts are 14mm; and so that the shocks don't shoot down when you removed the fork-to- lower control arm bolt, keep the top bolts on hand tightened. Then just hold the shock with one hand and unscrew the bolts with the other one.

That was a very good right up.

 

can someone send me the write up and pics?

 

Yeah, My friend can probably send you the write up with pics...he lives at the top right of the screen and his name is THE SEARCH BUTTON.