remove the wheel, loosen the bottom collar ring. remove the bottom strut bolt and turn.

 

Thanks was hoping it could be done without taking out that bottom bolt. Was just a pain to get the strut out from there guess i just need more practice.

 

there's another way.
loosen the lower lock ring, then turn the WHOLE SHEBANG (shock assy, spring mounts, collars) into/out of the lower bracket. use the lower spring perch to thread out of the bracket and the upper perch to thread into the bracket.

 

Okay i got you. raise the car prob take off wheel. loosen the lower perch use the upper perch to raise the height and use the second perch to lower the height.

Rotate upper clockwise and second counter clockwise.

than tighten bottom ring when done.

Thanks

 

yeah, the spring perch itself shouldnt move at all, because you're going against the locking on each one, you should move the whole shock body.

you can use a strap wrench (rubber) on the threaded body of the shock if you dont wanna use the perches.

 

Noticed this thread...don't mean to jack it, but rather than start a new thread I'll post here since it's related. I'm about to begin my install of Megan EZ's on my 90 LS with factory air suspension. Is there anything I need to remove from the factory air struts and install onto the Megans? Or do they come ready to install? I've torn my whole suspension apart and replaced the control arm bushings so I'm familiar with all of that, but I have never installed coilover's before this. Advice much appreciated. Thanks.

 

Just to get some pics in here...

Megan EZ's installed, didn't touch the rears but raised the driver's front about 1/2" - 3/4" before calling it a night. Definitely wish I would have adjusted the front about 1.5" or so before installing... Oh well, tomorrow!

 

Lookin' good Stock

 

Tell us how you feel the ride is. mine seems a bit bouncy to me. I tried different settings and i think i my height adjustment is a little higher than yours on the front. I may go back to regular ones and get kyb.

 

Looks like trash in the front, waaay too low.

For sure, hopefully I'll be able to raise it after work.

 

Needs bigger wheels, then it won't be so low :P

 

Fixed.

 

I just want to add my exp. for you people thinking of getting these for your car.

If you want stock or close to stock ride height, forget it, the highest I can get on this set is still fairly low, I got about 1.5in fender gap, which is still low as can be.

I replaced air suspension, my car is right hand drive so its a little different.

If you drive in winter like me, and want a reasonable ride height in the front, crank the coilovers all the way up, Past the site hole, measure out 30mm (1.2in) - the total threaded amount, then thread on the bottem just enough to cover that 1.2, you can get an ok winter height, or good lowered height from this.

My rears fully down were just flush, thats as low as it wants to go, but it can go much much higher.
When taking out rear seats, there was no tab on my lower seat cushion, pull up hard and they snap out. Seat back is the same. Also rear deck piece, pull up hard, they snap out.

remember to replace your air suspension line grommets back into the fender with a little bolt or something to cover the hole in the grommets, or grime will come in through the fenders.

Rears took me 3 tries to get height right, I suggest putting lower bolt in the other way (away from tie rod end) to allow fast removal to get height right.

Also when you put rear upper seat back in place, make sure the 4 metal hooks that are on the body are nice and straight (mine 1 got bent to the side) it took me a little while to get the rear seat aligned right, you can tell by running fingers along back of seat top and the back shelf piece, if there is too much gap you did it wrong, try again!

Overall I have the ride setting on 11/15, its a bit choppy on rougher roads, but is vastly improved sway control on corners, you can tell it has very short stroke in the suspension, definatly lost some of the compliance. I would seriously consider more aggresive springs and aftermarket shocks over the coilovers to keep your stroke length and still lower it a bit, the coilover rebound seems a bit too fast, I wanted BMW, not Skyline, but all in all they work well enough.

*update* just got back from first highway trip, its jumpy in town but its a completly different car handling wise now, I can actually feel the road, cornering is a trilion times flatter, no more driving a ship, feels like my mk3 supra did, fantastic!

 

you'll find the car rides much better when you have the front damping set firmer than the rear.

 

wow this same thing happened to me but my asshat friend caused it. I was taking the lower bolt out and he started loosening the tower bolts then bam. It fell behing that damn nut. The first one took like 15mins. Gonna do the rears Friday.

Been searching for how to on the rear but really have found much. Anyone have some pointers for smooth sailing?