JOM Coilovers

[panzertank]

my front driver sized collar on the strut housing is completely siezed. i guess last opetion is just get a junkyard knuckle/strut and use that

[panzertank]

thanks. we had the strut dropped down and we were trying to untighten it. we bolted it back into the frame, and used channel locks.


Heres a note for anyone without an impact wrench:

If you can't get the top bolt out of the old shock, angle grind the heck outt of two sides of the shock piece to hold it in a vice. then you cant unbolt it.

[khalild]

anyone on that can help..now.. i dont see a way to unthread the oem collar off of the strut housing to take out the shock, we tried just channel locking onto the collar but it wont budge. anything im missing?????

USE TWO PIPE WRENCHES
Or a pipe wrench and a vise


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[panzertank]

anyone on that can help..now.. i dont see a way to unthread the oem collar off of the strut housing to take out the shock, we tried just channel locking onto the collar but it wont budge. anything im missing?????

[RawToast]

Great coilovers, and surprised with comfort, however are mine installed properly they're all the way down...

[Edirtyy808]

well thats what i get for running 16x9s lol! thanks for the help.

[spike68]

Lol, Thanks. but my fronts are not as low as others. i even cut off the spring perch. how low is yours? got a pic?

It could depend on your current set up that your car may not appear to be as low.
Are you running stock wheels? if so, your front tires should tuck under the fender a bit. They should also grab the fender if you turn full lock every now and then too. :D

but id probably follow your oil pan height, which seems to be about right cause its pretty much the same as mine.

My sig is a pic of when it was not all the way down, so its a tad lower. I can snuggly slide a finger between my tire and fender. I dont have a pic of the way it currently looks.

[Edirtyy808]

[quote=spike68;3280290]Thats normal. Im all the way down and i still have plenty of ground clearance with my oil pan. Thats the advantage of still having an m20. their oil pans dont stick down as far. youre good :up:

Lol, Thanks. but my fronts are not as low as others. i even cut off the spring perch. how low is yours? got a pic?

[spike68]

my adjuster is all the way down, but oil pan still 4inches off the ground. M20 motor. i didnt put it upside down, cuz it didnt look like the pic above. and my spring wasnt even being as compressed as the above picture. its been almost 2 weeks now since i installed it.

Thats normal. Im all the way down and i still have plenty of ground clearance with my oil pan. Thats the advantage of still having an m20. their oil pans dont stick down as far. youre good :up:

Can someone post a picture of the front when they are low but with the car jacked up and the wheel off? i was too see how its supposed to look. thanks

not sure what youre trying to accomplish. its still gonna pretty much look the same with the adjuster up or down as the spring isnt compressed when its jacked up...
tell me what youre trying to figure out.

[smyleboyd]

Can someone post a picture of the front when they are low but with the car jacked up and the wheel off? i was too see how its supposed to look. thanks

[Edirtyy808]

my adjuster is all the way down, but oil pan still 4inches off the ground. M20 motor. i didnt put it upside down, cuz it didnt look like the pic above. and my spring wasnt even being as compressed as the above picture. its been almost 2 weeks now since i installed it.

[spike68]

Also keep in mind if you're having i difficult time compressing the spring for reassembling, then you probably did it wrong. I put mine on the wrong way the first time and got frustrated cause i couldnt compressing the spring enough to reassemble, until i realized the adjuster was unside down.

ASSEMBLE THE ADJUSTERS AS GIVIN OUT OF THE BOX. DO NOT FLIP THEM.

[Edirtyy808]

as others have said they could be on wrong basicly if you can see the top of the strut tube or any of it above the lower spring perch you did it wrong, i did this when i put the first one on, installed it how it was put together in the box and as i saw others install pics (who also did it wrong) before i realized that you have to have the small piece that threads into the strut tube threaded into the inside oth the adjuster thread piece the opposite way it comes assembled so you cant see the threads fron the outside, thus making the car go like 2 inches lower.

pics pleeease?

[SmokeE30]

im positive that they are not upsidedown but not positive if they are on properly. the car is getting painted so i cant mess with it or take pictures untill i get it back next week. ill update this when i get it back

as others have said they could be on wrong basicly if you can see the top of the strut tube or any of it above the lower spring perch you did it wrong, i did this when i put the first one on, installed it how it was put together in the box and as i saw others install pics (who also did it wrong) before i realized that you have to have the small piece that threads into the strut tube threaded into the inside oth the adjuster thread piece the opposite way it comes assembled so you cant see the threads fron the outside, thus making the car go like 2 inches lower.

[be34st]

Word indeed. Im going to bring them to market in mid September. $500 shipped for the first sets. I will have the first set and get it installed with detailed pictures and the service everyone has grown to expect. Two different actually for the different 5 series models.

OMFG YESSSSS! I have been praying for an E34 kit since I got them on my E30! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PM ME AS SOON AS THESE ARE AVAILABLE!!!