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« Reply #15 on: September 21, 2009, 01:33:11 AM » |
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i need rears on my car too it sits lower than the front and bounces around real bad on bumps
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« Reply #16 on: September 24, 2009, 08:15:06 AM » |
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Now it looks as if its sky jacking in the rear. Seriously I haven't seen a W body this high in the rear in a long time. My car has some serious ass lift. Even when towing a trailer loaded down and a trunk packed with over 500lbs of tools (seriously) and three 5 ton hydraulic floor lifts on the back floor. When it's empty, it's just ridiculous.  |
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« Reply #17 on: September 24, 2009, 03:03:34 PM » |
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Holy F thats crazy!!! hahaha i just did my rear struts too!! lol cost me $130 a side for monroe sensatracks or some shit... i just ordered them from Napa and got them billed to my shop. i thought they would be harder to change than they were... mind you we had a hoist with a rack jack. not much else needed other than tools. lol got paid on company time to do it too! (anything mechanical is considered experience at my shop!) but mine only raise up about an inch or so. i think i need to do some of the bushings in the back too, it tends to creak and moan a little still.
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« Reply #18 on: September 25, 2009, 12:49:27 PM » |
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Did you replace the upper strut mounts? That's a must if you're replacing the struts. Have you checked out the rubber isolator bushings on the ends of your rear monoleaf? MOOG sells a set of polyethelene "pucks" that drop in place of the old rubber isolator bushings. I tried a set on my Regal, and they stopped the squeaking and clanging that the monoleaf was making as it rubbed up against the nuckle (the rubber pads were worn down next to nothing.)   |
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« Reply #19 on: September 25, 2009, 03:59:29 PM » |
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yeah that was next on my list too. did you take everything apart to switch yours or do it the easy way?
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DiscoStudd
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« Reply #20 on: September 26, 2009, 03:37:36 AM » |
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I did it the easy way. Took literally 5 minutes to scrape the old pads off and drop in the new pucks.
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« Reply #21 on: September 26, 2009, 08:55:00 AM » |
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using a clamp or whatever to raise the leaf off of the bottom? (this is how the guy that did my exhaust told me to do it... ive yet to get around to actually doing it... but the thought is there.
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« Reply #22 on: September 27, 2009, 07:38:43 AM » |
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using a clamp or whatever to raise the leaf off of the bottom? (this is how the guy that did my exhaust told me to do it... ive yet to get around to actually doing it... but the thought is there. I just used a small floor jack and some jackstands when I put the pucks in both cars. The hardest part was getting that rubber shit off the monoleaf ends. It was like melted on there. |
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« Reply #23 on: September 27, 2009, 09:32:57 AM » |
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sounds easy.... i think im gonna go for a walk today and check out the junk yard for some ideas.
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« Reply #24 on: September 27, 2009, 09:37:16 AM » |
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on my regal, the struts have a bracket that shoots off of them with a couple of rubber mounts that go to something else... yours doesnt seem to have it and neither does my lumina... ill take a picture, but any ideas?
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« Reply #25 on: September 27, 2009, 10:52:52 AM » |
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The figure 8? I lost one of mine when my strut mount let loose, but my Regal did have them at one time.  I had my car up on jackstands and put my floor jack and a block of wood under each end of the spring to lift it up enough to get the old pad out and drop the new puck in... |
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« Reply #26 on: September 27, 2009, 11:34:41 AM » |
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yeah those are exactly it... whats the point of them?
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« Reply #27 on: September 27, 2009, 11:37:53 AM » |
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-and why do those plastic grommets from the parking brake always fall out?
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« Reply #28 on: September 27, 2009, 02:37:36 PM » |
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yeah those are exactly it... whats the point of them? They do have a purpose, but I forget what it was. I never put them back in because I didn't have the special tool and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get those damn things back in. |
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« Reply #29 on: September 27, 2009, 06:03:42 PM » |
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I would say that looks fairly important no?
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