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It was worth raising my kids car once purchased, 1.5" to stop severe metal scraping getting and and out of our driveway..it would hang up the car unless you found the right angle. A PO lowered the car to the absolute limits he could.
A suspension refresh was going to happen soon, but for NOW, the more serious need was not hanging the car on the front end on our amazingly ugly rural driveway entrance.
Your best bet would be to remove, disassemble, clean and reassemble those spring and shock assemblies. You could spend all freaking day trying to get those adjustment nuts to turn as they are, or you could spend the day removing, disassembling, cleaning and reassembling and being able to turn the adjustment nuts by hand to the point you want it after cleaning and prior to reassembly.
Your best bet would be to remove, disassemble, clean and reassemble those spring and shock assemblies. You could spend all freaking day trying to get those adjustment nuts to turn as they are, or you could spend the day removing, disassembling, cleaning and reassembling and being able to turn the adjustment nuts by hand to the point you want it after cleaning and prior to reassembly.
Believe me, it will be time well spent.
^This. Big time.
My coilovers looked very similar to yours as far as dirt & crud go.
I had new shocks going in, so taking them out and cleaning them was already part of the plan.
Removal, disassembly, reassembly & reinstall are covered nicely in the WSM.
I did a bit of searching on here before, and found that some folks have an issue getting the big pin out of the back (one each side).
I also asked for suggestions before I started.
It's not as big of a job as I had thought: https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...ce-shocks.html
Having the coilovers apart and the shocks (by themselves) in a vise makes breaking the adjusters loose much, much, much easier.
One warning: There will be years of accumulated crud in the wheelwells and on the suspension. Cleaning it will become a bit of an obsession. Deciding when to stop will not be easy.
Thanks for the help everyone - between a few tools some PB blaster and the excel file from above - i am all set.
Put "new ones" on my Christmas list - but the old ones work fine for now.
Do yourself a favor and add something protective to the newly-exposed threads. Good anti-seize or some grease may be a start. Else a spray wax-like battery-terminal coating is an effective substitute for the original cosmoline the factory sprayed on.
03-16-2019, 02:06 PM
