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suspension changing nightmare!!
Discotel:
Hi Nick, My lift went quite good really, I did shear off a couple of retaining bolts though, I found it much easier to cut the remaing nut off with a grinder and replace them with an M10 nut and bolt. Also I undid the bottom nut no problem with a 19mm spaner...the trick is to hold the front shock with a pair of stillsons (pipe wrench) and get the spanner on the nut, then just turn the shock with the stillsons and off it comes.
The rear shock are easy as you should just be able to undo the nuts with a 19mm spanner. I did mine in this order.
Jack the car up and rest the chassis on axle stands, keep a trolley jack under the rear axle to hold the weight, undo the rear shock bottom nut, then lower the trolley jack, this will let the shock swing free and the spring will pop out, then remove the top shock nut and remove the shock, undo the retaining bolts to remove the spring (cut from underneath if they shear as this will save you drilling them out)..pop in the new spring and fix in place, then put on the shock top mount and jack the axle back up to the car and this will locate the lower mount for you.
Do this to both sides mate and you are sorted,
For the front I used the stillsons to hold and turn the shocks, then just cut off the top nut with a grinder as they are impossible to undo. I removed the turret aswell...Again undo the bottom nuts first and then let the trolley jack down, this will let the shock come free, you might need a bottle jack to push the axle down enough to remove the spring or get some spring clamps.
Trust me mate this works a treat, I did my lift in about 4hrs including shearing off bolts and cutting them off.
Hope this helps, Terry
Pike:
go to b&q and buy about 10 steel cutting discs and good luck!!!!..........if you bought heavy duty retaining plates for the front from paddocks like I did dont bother trying to re-use the original captive nuts underneath the plates,youll never tighten em down,just drill straight through and use the nyloc nuts supplied............dont bother with wd 40 just cut it all out and start again with all new bolts,nuts etc.
Range Rover Blues:
Don't bother with the WD40, just get a good spanner on the nuts and a Stilson on the shocker and snap the damn things off, they usually snap on me anyway so don't waste the time taking the nut halfway off first. Another ploy is to drill into the nut from the front then split it with a cold chisel.
Drilling/grinding/hitting with a big hammer always makes you feel better anyway :D
gords:
I found that an oil filter removal tool (strap or chain) worked very well. As long as you don't want the shock afterwards, that is!
For the back, most of the nuts were removed using a nut splitter - which saves a lot of time and effort. Remember to clean up the threads before putting a new nut on though (you'll need to buy a supply of new ones, of course!).
stratie:
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I did my lift in about 4hrs
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4 Hours :shock: i must of spent 4 hours trying to get the rear shocks off, and they aint having none of it :x
If the rain holds off tomorrow then i'll get the grinder out :twisted:
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