Ok so im in the middle of an install..Installin mugen sports suspension on my 02 ep3..all of the struts were an easy install except for front driver side..The strut wont line up with holes on the control arm..itll move left and right but not up to fit in with the holes on the strut.l.Please help!! where stuck..we dont kno y its not movin

Thanks in Advance

 

i think we popped out the axle on this one..how do u fix it?..please ne one help lol

 

what do you mean popped out the axle?

 

I don't fully understand the strut problem... so you can't get the two big bolts in on the control arm?

 

i think he means the inner part where it goes into the tranny. i had this happen to me and i to cut the band and get a new one to seal the boot back up after i poped it back into place.

 

Oh I've done that. I just turn the axle and keep pushing on it over and over till it pops back in.

 

yea we ended up just turning and pushing as hard as we could and it finally popped in..man that thing was a serious pia!! I started sweatin it after about an hour or so of pushing and nothing happenin..I had never had this happen to me so ya lol but I guess its a common thing that happens on the ep3 from what ive read..sometimes u just have to manhandle the stuff I guess!

 

pretty much! I've had it happen several times. Sometimes it goes right back in.. sometimes you need to CONVINCE it with brute force to go back in lol

 

my trick is to loosely put on the 3 top nuts so the strut will rock back and forth.....then put in the lower bolt that connects the knuckel to the strut.....you can now push on the part of the knuckel that the upper bolt goes into while turing the disk....pops right in...

 

NICE!!! good to know in case if it happens to me in the future...

 

So did he hyper extend the axle cv joint? I am not sure what the heck is going on here.

 

haha thats exactly what we ended up doing after trying a 100 different things lol..it still needed some good convincing so i had my friend turn the disc while i pushed with all my might lol..it took us 4rever just to even line up the lower bolt lol..3 hr job turns into 5..haha gotta love installs

 

i thnk the axle just popped out of its housing..ionno someone correct me if im wrong lol

 

just another tip - i popped both of mine out doin a spring job (first time doing anything with suspension), and what i found to be really easy, after about 30 minutes of feeling what it would do when i did different things, is to turn it towards you about a quarter of the way then really start your pushing an turn clock wise (as if the car was going backwards) that PIA slipped in sooo quick then i turned it counter clockwise and it went straight back into the strut holes. i did the next side in about 2-3 minutes it was a snap...