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Old 10-10-2013, 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby View Post
22mm bolts on the bottom of the strut at the spindle.

13mm (I think) 3 nuts on top of the shock tower in engine bay


Take it out as an assembly, then you have to get a spring compressor to compress the spring a bit then use an air gun to get the top strut mount off, remove spring and put spring/strut mount on top of new strut, reinstall as an assembly.
The top part has three nuts, do I need to unscrew the weird bolt in the middle on the strut itself it looks like?

the bottom is very hard to get out. (no air tools) i used pb blaster to soak them and a little torch to heat up and they still wont budge.


bolt in number 3 and below it.
same with 12..

thanks
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