Ok. Well then. Follow your wallet and heart. LOL My journal should give you an idea on things. :D

Good instructions. Just got mine on this afternoon. Only difference was if you don't lift both front tires off the gound like I did. You will find it much easier to drop the front sway bar in order to get the strut to rlease from the tower. They sure look good:ugh2:

Thanks for the words. :tiphat: I had both front wheels removed when I did this, and removed the both end links from the sway bar first. It's the stock rubber bushings on the lower control arm not wanting to move that won't allow the coilover to drop out.

Also the instructions say to align the hiem joints. The pics with mine were very dark. So just adding a pic to Rusty's showing the aligned joints.

[IMG]http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/a...psvtqf7oh0.jpg[/IMG]

Anybody else having the hiem joint rotate out of how they are supposed to be aligned? Seems to only hapen on the driver side. The rear most one. I torqued it down pretty good but! It still moves out of whack a little.

Mine has been fine. I'm sure it's ok. It's my rear end links I can't get right. They always rotate till they lock out.

Loctite red?

Sorry, Loctite blue. The one you can break loose.

Did you ever figure this out?


And question for Rusty. Did the shop that pressed out the old bushing also have to press in the new ones? Or do they just slide right into the arm?

Nope still happens but, not nearly as much. As part of a pre track weekend I reset the hiem joints takes about 10 min per side and retighten everything. I should probably call SPL and ask but, I haven't. I probably think it is a bigger deal than it really is....you would think the joints would align themselves to their natural location after the suspension moves through it's range of motion a couple of times.

still everyone that has looked at them for my HPDE inspection has commented on how well they are made and how "TRICK" those bad mo fo's are.:tup:

Can you take a picture of it misaligned. Im curious what it looks like

Yep next time I get the front off the ground I snap a few

You asking someone who has brain farts. LOL What I can remember, they slid on with little muscle.

Just got done checking the suspension and breaks for next weekend track day. Again the hiem joints were out a bit. I re-torqued them down and in fairness the split ring clamp the one nearest the joint could have been tighter. I tightened everything back up about as tight as I dared and marked the arm and the adjustment nut to see if the adjustment nut side or the hiem joint side was the one moving. Here are some pics of how they were before I realigned them.

Driver side Front:
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/a...psfvsqka6h.jpg
Driver side Rear:
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/a...psnuggjjsm.jpg
Passenger side:
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/a...psoc8ua6br.jpg

That doesnt look right being all twisted in there...weird