Mod Grocery List Item #6 - Springs

[PetesSweets86]

What shocks do you have for your LS? It's best when under there to combine sport shocks and springs for the best overall performance in my opinion. Then again I never installed them but you should consider killing two birds with one stone.....

 

[JWerner2]

Ok, right tools - spring compressor is one of them. Do I need a ball joint fork or tie rod end separator too? That's why I was asking the other questions - did people just loosen the shock bolts at the tops of the towers to get the springs out or did they take apart the lower control arm?

And the other questions too -

Its really easy.

Remove the tie rods, then the bolt on the lower mount and the bolts on the upper mount and pull the assembly out.

Compress the spring, take of the nut on the damper, remove the spring, slowly decompress it, then just reassemble pretty much in reverse.

 

[Tru-Blu]

Thanks JW

So I'll need to get a hold of a tie rod separator as well.

Petey, the shocks are stock (it's a 2006 Premium), and I believe they are the sport models. I'm pretty sure the Sport Suspension upgrade was part of the Premium and Elite packages of the car.

TRU

 

[JWerner2]

Thanks JW

So I'll need to get a hold of a tie rod separator as well.

Petey, the shocks are stock (it's a 2006 Premium), and I believe they are the sport models. I'm pretty sure the Sport Suspension upgrade was part of the Premium and Elite packages of the car.

TRU

No, just remove the bottom bolt and loosen the upper and move it out of place. The only reason to do this is to get to the bolt on the bottom mount of the strut behind the rod.

 

[Tru-Blu]

Thanks again JW -

I'm sure it will make sense when I get down there to take a look at it. I haven't looked at the suspension yet at all.

TRU

 

[JWerner2]

Its pretty self explanatory after you look at it for a few minutes and think.

 

[Lincoln Jealous]

Its pretty self explanatory after you look at it for a few minutes and think.

you bastard!

 

[Alax7]

Random

 

[cammerfe]

What about....

i have intrax lowereing springs and i cut a coil off them to lower more. my ride is great even with 19 inch wheels with low pro tires, and i have bad discs in my back, and a degenerative disc disease so if it were bad i would really notice. very sporty and comfy. unless your an old fart that wants a land yacht the ride will be fine. a lowered car is the only way to roll

...an old fart that doesn't want a land yacht?

KS

 

[Lincoln Jealous]

Random

lol i just got the urge

 

[1LoudLS]

you bastard!

did you really dig up a year old thread just to call JWerner a bastard?

 

[Lincoln Jealous]

did you really dig up a year old thread just to call JWerner a bastard?

dont tell me its bad timing, maybe i need a new tensioner lmao:shifty: