Thaddeus

...so I go out there to replace the rear shocks. Put the car on 2 ramps, plenty of room, ready to go. Simple. right? Or it would be, if the top bolt would slide all the way out. But it can't. The tire is too wide, there's about 1/2" of bolt there that the old shock is hanging from. So I button it all back up and will go buy some jackstands tomorrow so I can take off the wheels before I try to replace the shocks.

Seems like everything you do with these cars, there's a trick. The trick is never hard, but it takes awhile to figure it out. And you usually need to buy or fabricate some funky little widget to get it just so.

Actually I enjoyed myself out there, rolling around and grumbling at the bolt. That's the difference between these cars and others. If my Windstar had done something like that I would push it over a cliff. With the Porsche, I just laugh, shake my head, and go at it again the next day.

~cheers~

Thaddeus

Untier

you may want to keep the floor jack under the susspension, to use incase you need raise the arm a smidge to pull out the bolt.

Brent 89 - GT

You MUST have a jack under the trailing arm. The torsion bar pushes down, exerting pressure even with the shock fully extended. I stripped out the trailing arm bolt on one side doing this job (steel bolt aluminum hole) be careful!

my944

Thadeus,

PLEASE look at the "Tech Session" that Skip and I wrote at Paragon Products. It helps with the entire procedure. And DEFINATELY take care not to strip the threads in the trailing arm...

Best Regards

Renntag

Yeah, Not too hard, but be careful of the steel bolt into aluminum threads deal...dont want that headache.

Good Luck.

Thaddeus

They're in. I figured out the steel-bolt-into-aluminum thing myself, I have had.... interesting... experiences in the past with that sort of thing. Different application.

Amazingly, the stock shocks (Sachs) with 87000 miles and 14 years of use STILL expanded on their own after I pulled them out; the charge was still in there. That's quality. The new shocks ride and handle better though...

Thaddeus