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HELP front strut install question. Plz help this hopeless case (me, not the car)
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<blockquote data-quote="Spintastic9000" data-source="post: 16766893" data-attributes="member: 201654"><p>For those of you with experience or the least bit of mechanical aptitude, this will seem stupid, but please bear with me. I made an attempt to install some Bilstein front struts on the 96 Cobra, and I'm not sure I put them in correctly at the top.</p><p></p><p>At first, I wasn't sure if I was supposed to re-use the bushing from the old strut that goes between the strut and the shock tower from underneath. I tried installing them without that, but it obviously wasn't right. So then I installed them with the bushing put on like this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1747178[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I'm still not sure that it's right, but I went with it and put them in. After I did both sides like that, it looked like one side of the car had more of the top bushing poking through than the other:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1747180[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1747181[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Please SVTPerformance, I am at your mercy. Did I do this correctly? Did I miss a step? Is it totaled? What am I missing, if anything. Explanations as if I am a five year old are acceptable, and if I'm honest, preferable. Thank you!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spintastic9000, post: 16766893, member: 201654"] For those of you with experience or the least bit of mechanical aptitude, this will seem stupid, but please bear with me. I made an attempt to install some Bilstein front struts on the 96 Cobra, and I'm not sure I put them in correctly at the top. At first, I wasn't sure if I was supposed to re-use the bushing from the old strut that goes between the strut and the shock tower from underneath. I tried installing them without that, but it obviously wasn't right. So then I installed them with the bushing put on like this: [ATTACH type="full" width="256px"]1747178[/ATTACH] I'm still not sure that it's right, but I went with it and put them in. After I did both sides like that, it looked like one side of the car had more of the top bushing poking through than the other: [ATTACH type="full" width="308px"]1747180[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" width="308px"]1747181[/ATTACH] Please SVTPerformance, I am at your mercy. Did I do this correctly? Did I miss a step? Is it totaled? What am I missing, if anything. Explanations as if I am a five year old are acceptable, and if I'm honest, preferable. Thank you! [/QUOTE]
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