One of the Boge struts on my Turbo 3.6 seized, so I'm replacing both with Bilstein HD.

Sometimes I get a rush of blood to the head and decide to work on the car myself.

The agreement with the local Porsche shop is that they will change my springs etc over on the struts after I have removed them. I will then refit them and get the car aligned.

All good on the removal....so far. I have loosened every bolt so nothing can stop me now except the brake lines.

I can just cut the strut clip and pull the line off the strut but I don't what to do that to try new strut so the lines need undoing. Questions are:

1. Where is the best place to clamp the runner hose and how hard to do it?

2. Where do I put the spanners to undo the pipe fitting?

Yes, they are basic questions but better to get it right than risk looking. Stupid

 

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Hey John,
Problem here is that when you are loosening the brake line fitting there is a risk of twisting the hard line, potentially obstructing or ruining the line. There are some posts here about that happening and guys fabricating a new line to the calliper.

If you don't want to risk the line and get into a brake line job then Dremel out the metal clip and zip tie the line to the new strut.

Good luck
FS

 

That's what I was worried about. I've cut the Boge clip as that will be binned. Will have a thought about doing the same on the Bilstein.

 

Yes, no need to open up the brake line !
I cut the whole tab off the old strut with a hacksaw blade. Then cut the piece away from the line once the old strut was out of the way.
On the new Bilstein, just cut a slot big enough to slide the fitting thru. Reuse the old clip and safty wire or ty-wrap to retain the clip.

 

Success. One side out. Anyone know the meanings of the colour marks on the springs. Green and brown was on the Turbo 3.6. All brown came out of my C4.

 

I think the brown is actually orange and the 3 dot orange is M030. Is that correct ?