hobojoe

Hey guys im installing my megans, and ran into some serious trouble. i got the rears done and the instant i let them down of the jack they were sitting on my tires.

Im running rays gt-7s 20# by 9.5 in the rear. I took the wheels off raised them up quite a but but it still sits on the fender??? Am scared to do the fronts right now but have the stock wheels on and there clearing fine.

Any ideas?

gekae24

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adjust adjudt adjust i had that ame problem in the front took me a long time to get the hieght that i wanted... es350 though might be different.

PureDrifter

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what offset...
did you roll the rear fenders?
what tire size are you running?

sounds like a fitment issue, nothing wrong with the coilovers....

LiCelsior

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you just gotta adjust them..here was a picture when i just installed it without adjusting out of the box.

19psi

they're set pretty short so they can ship them in a smaller box. you usuallyhave to lengthen them for a street car....
make sure you're turning the actual threaded body part in (or out) of the silver colored base. don't change where the spring sits on teh threaded part.

PureDrifter

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that's only true for the fronts, i threaded my rears all the way into the the bottom mount and still am not low enough >.< going to call megan in a couple days to see how much i can lower the preload to drop it that last bit i need.

hobojoe

ok, so im assuming then that the spring height is used for final adjustments??

hobojoe

trying to do the front now, when i try to re/-attach the nut to the upper ball joit it just spins??

19psi

seriously? man, i had them all the way down in the back and it tucks the top of the tire no problem on 19's...
why did you take the ubj apart? not realy necessary, but anyway, to keep it from spining, take along pry bar, and pry the uca down to apply pressure to the ball joint in the socket, which will keep it from spinning while you tighten it.

PureDrifter

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tucking tire is easy part......i'll get some pics up in a couple weeks

OP- to keep the ball joint from spinning i like to put everything together, and just rest the stud in the hole with the nut on it, not tightened, then take a jack and jack up the lower spindle to put some load on the suspension components and you should be able to tighten to your heart (or torque wrench)'s content

hobojoe

Its all done!, Going in for an alignment and leveling tomorrow Will post pics soon!

Fyi pulling the ball joint i had both front shocks pulled and new ones installed in under an hour.

19psi

[QUOTE=PureDrifter;4457278]tucking tire is easy part......i'll get some pics up in a couple weeks

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ah, i see... i'll be awaiting pics.


sweet. how do you like the ride? where did you set the shocks?
i guess everyone does it a different way, whatever works.

hobojoe

well currently i havent toyed with it that much so the ride is ALOT stiffer. But i love the huge handling gains, partly due to the fat rubber also.

Ive got about a 1 inch gap right now between top of the tire and bottom of the fender..

....But Im going to be trying to find a place to cut/or roll the fenders as well as pull them. Then im gonna drop it more. But the CO roads just blow :[

19psi

yeah they definitely make a nice handling difference for the huge boats!