Hi folks
How big a job is fitting a set of coilovers and how long do u reckon it would take one person to do?
I have had a set of Teins sitting for a few weeks now and just want to throw them on myself rather than stick it into the garage?
Cheers:mmmm
Fronts are easy bud, rears will take a bit longer, never done a rx7 b4 but have plenty of others tho.. and the rears are always the worst hehe.. do them first, impact tools will make it alot easyer.
Will be spraying your wheels wensday bud :)
Never done a set beforethe RX, started and took me 2 hours, check on here I found a good couple of write up ups from memory removing the wishbone things helped, I actualy found the front the worst, but as I say never done another car
cheers
Cheers guys... only a couple of hours...not too bad at all!
Will be giving this a go Wednesday..fingers crossed!
Craig: no problem mate!
The fronts are the most difficult the rears are a piece of cake, prep it properly and it\'s easy,grease the coileover threads lightly and wind them down as far as they\'ll go and get some penetrating oil on all the nuts/bolts and leave to soak for a few hours it\'ll make life easier.
Fronts are harder then the rears, The front upper wish bone\'s have to come off with the shocks, rears are pretty straight forward. Tip use plenty of lube and a big bar for the bottom arms and roll bar\'s.. Have fun LOL
Hi Criag,
If you would like to look here at Shyauto.com which our Sister site to Mazdarotaryparts you will find a step by step guide on how to fit coil overs to an FD that we constructed after fitting many sets to these cars.
http://www.shyauto.com/Downloads/FD0702.pdf
Hope this helps
As everyone has said, rears are very easy! Fronts are more tricky but stil not that hard TBH (unless you can\'t get the bottom pin into the lower wishbones then it\'s a right PITA!).
A good tip, make sure both the whels you\'re working on (both rears or fronts) are off the ground AND there\'s nothing on the lower wisbones, this means the ARB\'s are loose and easy to get off otherwise there\'s still a load of pressure cauing troubles ;)
Thanks so much guys for the help..I will give this a go on Wednesday and take some pics before and after... ! Should be fun, lets hope its dry as I dont have a garage to work in!
Cheers :Laugh
Well...its done!
Wasnt too bad at all, took about 3.5 hours in total with no major dramas. Think ill need to lower the front tho cause it looks like its sitting higher than the rear.
A few pics...
(http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff42/CraigWWW/DSCF0453.jpg)
(http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff42/CraigWWW/DSCF0452.jpg)
(http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff42/CraigWWW/DSCF0461.jpg)
Thanks for all the help and advice guys...:Thumbs-up
Clive, you are the man. Those instructions are first class.
Wish I had seen that before doing mine, might have saved a little time and tidiness.
:Thumbs-up :Thumbs-up Yeah i\'ll second that Clive, if I didnt have those I would still be out there just now, knuckles bleeding and holdin my wee torch thats running out of batteries!!!
Cheers Clive!!
o dear god burn that fog light man lol.. glad your getting on ok bud :) looks better already :yes
Lol yeah the fog light is gettin binned, MOT time now tho !
Trying to look at the link on shyauto but all i get is a blank page!???
Quote from: flash76Trying to look at the link on shyauto but all i get is a blank page!???
Hi
I have just tested the link and it works ok - try again here
http://www.shyauto.com/Downloads/FD0702.pdf
You can find further information in our Technical Information section on our website:-
http://www.mazdarotaryparts.com/index.asp?function=WEBPAGE&page=4
I think the problem must be at my end, cant get any of links on shyauto to work just comes up blank :(
Quote from: flash76I think the problem must be at my end, cant get any of links on shyauto to work just comes up blank :(
Hi
Have just tried the shyauto.com site it seems that our server must be down. Will contact them tomorrow to establish the problem. Sorry
Hi
Website link now working - see here:-
http://www.shyauto.com/download.htm