Hi all, just wondering how hard it is to slap some new shocks & springs on my 91 civic 4dr???

anyone know of any guides to doing it?

thanks

 

its easy. you should get a spring compressor though. just borrow one from a autoparts store. safety is

 

its not tough, but be careful of the rear bottom trailing arm bolts, they are easy to break me and a friend did his and the bolt was turning freely than the head broke off. not fun i suggest using impact or adding heat to the bolts on both sides.

 

Yeah its easy and yes I also broke the head off a bolt.

If I were you I would suggest buying all new LCA bolts, then go to a shop and have them use their impact wrench and replace all the bolts for you. That way you can go back and will have no problems. If you know the guys they will do it for free, if not I doubt a shop would charge much if anything to do that.

 

thats a good idea, speaking of the broken bolt... what was your final solution for getting it out? did you drill it?

 

I had to replace my LCA, that was the easiest option. Since I didn't need to strut we just took off the LCA/Strut and chucked it and put the new LCA on with the KYB.

 

How many do I get? And what part#/size are they?

I had the rear Konis put in, but I will do the front, everything on the front and rear were taken apart and put back together.

So what bolts should I replace front and rear?

 

I actually did it last night, I only have the front done right now but it wasn't anything too hard. It was a little difficult removing the bolt that holds the drop fork to the control arml, I had to hammer it out. Getting to back in was a trick too, my frient held the control arm down while I got the drop fork in line and started the bolt. Then it was just a matter of hammering the bolt back through. The only problem we ran into was on the stupid bolt that holds the bottom of the shock in on the top of the drop fork, we put the bolt in the wrong way so it'd go half way and hit the unthreaded part, it took us about 1/4 can of WD-40 and a half hour to realize why it wouldn't go in any further.