[Dan85]

Hi everyone. Just trying to install the 50mm efs kit i just received and im having trouble getting the front springs out. The problem im having is the smallest spring compressor i can find seems to big and doesn't fully grab the springs so i cant get them out. any ideas how to do it or do i just have to go find some smaller spring compressors?

[Jezza86]

undo the bottom of the shocks, jack the chassis till the spring falls out
watch out for you vacuum hoses and breaklines.

[pete_79]

Don't need spring compressors.

Some pics on my build thread showing how I used jacks on the diff to make it easier and the brake lines and vacuum hoses I had to unclip; http://www.auszookers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=44709

[Dan85]

thanks guys. got it working. I got the front in but the back is still stock so it looks like a gangsta caddy with a lowered rear end.

[sur5a]

Hey Dan if you need a hand,give us a yell ,I'm not far from you

[Dan85]

The fronts done but your welcome to come help with the rear and have a beer or three. My panhards arrived today so contemplating putting them in as well.

[sur5a]

no worries,I'm pretty much free tomorrow

[Dan85]

Sounds good I'll pa you address and phone number. Got an appointment at 1030 so anytime after 11 is good with me.

[Dan85]

big thanks to Dave for coming and giving me a hand it was alot easier with two!! we encountered a problem tho. the passenger side rear shock wont line up with the mount. we tried various iterations of jacking it up at various spots and it still wouldnt go. now i think ive fucked the bolt and thread a little. so ive got a few ideas:

1. mount the bottom of the shock first and then the top mount after.
2. get shock relocation brackets.

as far as the stuffed thread am i better off just drilling the mount out and using a bolt and nut?

[jimny_timmy]

Both Wilso and I have drilled our bottom mounts out after the thread stripped. Being a really fine thread (1.25) they strip quite easily and also have issues with undoing themselves. I've even had them come out with loctite. Get a 12mm x 150mm bolt with a nylock but and you'll be trouble free.

And make sure you use loctite on all your shock bolts... They will come undone lol

[zukenutter]

Shock mount relocators are worth adding. The axle rotates when you raise the rear, this puts a twisting force on the shocks.

[Dan85]

Thanks guys. I drilled the left mount out and it was a piece of piss. I'll do the right one once the re locators arrive.

[pete_79]

I also used the nuts off the stock front shocks as locking nuts on top of the new front shocks.

[Dan85]

Pete unfortunately my nuts had to be cut off otherwise I'd do that. I might go buy some more and do it anyway. Good idea