I am installing my teins and i have alreayd completed the fronts, they were cake. the rears however, are giving me an amazing amount of trouble.

This is where im at on the rear section:

ive unbolted the botton strut bolt
unbolted the top 3 bolt on top of the strut


i tryed to get the sway bar end link undone, but couldent fit my breaker bar in there, and i dont have enough strength to use a regular ratchet.Is undoing the sway bar end link 100% necassary? also, it seems very hard to pry down on the cailipar and slide the strut out, theres alot of resistance! i had my 160lb friend jump up and down on the caliper but still cant get it to move down far enough to slide the strut out. what am i missing?


any/all help is great as i am at a standstill with this.

ps. ive search and found all the coilover how to's.


thanks guys

 

Wow so the front was "Cake" huh? When I was lowering my car for the first time I thought the front was the hardest. What I did to lower that rear was use a jackstand and a scizzor jack on top of each other. I dont suggest that this is the correct way of doing it nor the safest but this is how I did it..

Since my heavy friend wasnt able to lower the caliper to where I could get the strut out I got desperate and used my own little method. After I unbolted the top 3 nuts and loosened the center nut ( I left it on there at about halfway screwed in for safety. Shocks can pop out and hit you in the face) I used two spring compressors and I compressed the shock and spring together so I can get more clearance from the bottom of the shock. I then took the jackstand and placed it firmly on top of the brake caliper. Then I put the Toyota Scizzor jack on top of the jackstand and started turning it until the top of the scizzor jack touched the ceiling of the wheel base. Or you can place the jack stand on top of the scizzor jack. Which ever way you find to be easier. Once everything is nice and stable to the point where nothing is going to pop out, I turned the scizzor jack somemore. It lowered the brake caliper a couple inches more and I was able to carefully wiggle the strut and spring out with no problem.

As for the swaybar endlink, I didnt bother taking it off on the other side because it was too hard to put back on the other side.

 

i did it.. thanks

 

from my experience with both my SCs, the rears suspension always gives me trouble. dang thing is so tight! i agree with you about the fronts... cake!

 

After unbolting the 3 bolts on top, and the one big bolt on the bottom of the strut... shove a crowbar in there and pry free. That's what I did last weekend when I installed my TT Supra Eibach springs & KYB supra struts. Worked like a charm

-Allen

 

Use a crowbar and alotta force.

 

I just did this over the weekend. You need to disconnect the sway bar end link. I was able to get a breaker bar under the car to get to it. Once the sway bar is disconnected it is a lot easier to move the everything down so you can get the strut out.

Make sure the rear end is jacked up high enough for youto use a breaker bar.

As a side note these helped me out:

http://www.discountramps.com/plastic_car_ramps.htm

I could get a 4x4 block on top of my jack to get the car up higher.

 

The front are a piece of cake to do if you have a ball joint seperator. The rears are even easier, but u need a friend to push down on the axle cause it likes to spring up.

 

thanks

 

LOL< I've got to second this method, as it is very similar to what I did (I used a small hydrolic "bottle jack") and though it did take me 2 hours on the first side to figure out a way to do it alone with no ones help. The second side was done in like 15 minutes. I did use a piece of wood to protect the upper wheel as the jack pressure pushed down the axel.

I did not compress springs, not needed in my case. I also agree that the end links can stay on. Seemed safe enough,

 

i had my fat neighbor put his foot on the axle