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Offline Mirage-

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Re: Suspension Overhaul - Bushes etc.
« Reply #10 on: 03 July 2006, 09:15 »
I've just done the bushes all round on my gti, the fronts I had pressed out and in at my local scrap yard who have an hydraulic press.  The rear bushes we ended up taking the entire back axle off for access then on the road outside my house we gave them a good whack with a big tapping stick.  To get the rear bushes back in was pretty simple using a bench vice then just had to line the axle back up, re-connect the brake pipes and bleed the brakes.... job done.

It's just my front suspension I seem to be having bother with, just bought some FK Konigsport coilovers and although the front passenger side top plate tightened down nice and easy the drivers side seems to be just spinning and I don't know how I'm going to lock the pistons so that I can tighten the top mount bolt?

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Re: Suspension Overhaul - Bushes etc.
« Reply #11 on: 03 July 2006, 09:45 »
You need a 21mm spark plug socket, or a 22mm lambda probe/diesel injector socket (my old nuts were 21mm, the new VW ones were 22mm?)  Then you use an allen key through the middle/in the cut out to hold the strut still while you use a spanner on the socket flats to tighten the nut.

You should replace the top mount nuts as they are self-locking, and should not be re-used!
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Re: Suspension Overhaul - Bushes etc.
« Reply #12 on: 03 July 2006, 10:07 »
If only it were that simple  :sad:

I have fitted FK Konigsport Coilovers, fully adjustable ride height and dampers.   So, where the old original VAG suspension had the allen key these new coilovers have a lovely adjustment notch for the dampers.  The only other way I can see to lock them is to use a 10 or 11mm spanner (11 seems slightly too big and 10 too small?) on the nut before the adjuster whilst at the same time tightening the 22mm nut to hold it all in.

Thing is how that it's a spanner I need to use and not an allen key (easy as you say with spark plug socket) I now have to somehow get to the main nut (22mm) whilst at the same time allowing myself access to the smaller locking nut above it? Another odd thing is that the drivers side top mount plate seems to sit a lot higher than the passenger side which locked down no problem.  :rolleyes:
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Re: Suspension Overhaul - Bushes etc.
« Reply #13 on: 03 July 2006, 10:21 »
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Re: Suspension Overhaul - Bushes etc.
« Reply #14 on: 03 July 2006, 10:28 »
Not too sure as it's quite a tight squeeze between the edges of the main nut and the recess in the top plate, will start a new thread asking how others have done it using the coilovers as I'm sure I'm not the only one  :smiley:
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