well i think i messed up really bad..... please read..

[Guest ON3GO]

this is what i ment... the washers wont go near the top perch..

[Dan Juday]

That's correct. Don't drill out the washers. When you install the whole thing back on the car and let the car down off the jack the weight of the car will compress the strut and the washers will come down and meet the upper perch.

 

You're doin' fine buddy.

[Guest ON3GO]

aww thank god...

thanks guys.. i just gonna find my bump stops...

[j260z]

i almost forgot. before you put the threaded aluminum sleeve onto the strut you should run a bead of silicone around the strut on the new spring perch you welded on. after you have applied the bead, put the sleeve on and press it into the silicone. you can then continue to build up the struts. the reason for this is that when the silicone sets up it will prevent the sleeve from rotating around the strut. sorry, i didn't think about that last night.

if you have already assembled the struts, not to worry. you should still have enough slack that you can lift up the threaded sleeve and put the silicone in without disassembly. what i would then do is thread up the adjustable lower perch (gold piece) until the spring presses the upper spring retainer into the black washers. make sure the spring is in there snug so that the threaded sleeve is tight against the lower perch you welded in and leave them like that until the silicone has set up.

[auxilary]

or use a rubber o-ring, which is what ground control supplies with their coilover sleeves!

[Mike kZ]

Why does it matter if the sleeve rotates?

[auxilary]

it doesn't really, but would you want to hear the sound of a metal sleeve banging against the strut tube? it's an extra noise that you don't really need to hear

[j260z]

the other reason being that when you go to adjust the spring height, by turning the adjustable lower spring perch, you don't want the threaded aluminum sleeve to rotate.

[David K]

You guys should really be using dust boots on those coilovers.

[j260z]

do you know how much dust boots weigh???? not to mention the fact that they change the rebound and dampening characteristics of the shock itself!!!