Member Since: 24 Jan 2011
Location: New York
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Need help aligning
I bought a coil spring conversion kit for my LR3 from Atlantic British (http://www.roverparts.com/Parts/L319SRK-A).
I'm having trouble figuring out how to put the bolt through the strut as you can see from the pictures I've attached.
Any ideas?
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18th Oct 2017 8:18 pm
Batfink
Member Since: 31 May 2017
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Unless I am missing something obvious it looks like you just need to jack up the bottom of the new shock assembly until it lines up with the bolt hole.2006 TdV6 HSE.
18th Oct 2017 9:45 pm
Pete K
Member Since: 15 Jan 2016
Location: GL
Posts: 10363
Bit of wood on jack and jack shock slowly until holl alligned.
May need screw driver thru hole first. Wiggle and change for bolt
18th Oct 2017 11:04 pm
er1c
Member Since: 24 Jan 2011
Location: New York
Posts: 183
When I go to jack it up, it catches the control arm and compresses the control arm with it.
Here's a short video of what's happening:
Is there something I'm missing here? It doesn't seem possible to jack it up without moving the control arm with it.Long Ranger aux fuel tank, Traxide w/ yellow top battery, Sasquatch rods, G4 tail guards, GVIF 6.2, CarPC (Dual-Core Atom D525, 64GB SSD, 4GB DDR3 & M3-ATX 125W PSU, Win7 Pro 64 w/ Centrafuse 3.5), Yaesu FT-8900R ham radio w/ Comet CA-2x4SR, reverse CCD camera, RLD laptop seat mount, RLD roof antenna mount, Viair 400P compressor, 3K xenons, 2.5K halogen fogs, Series 3 mudflaps, 1.25" Wheel Spacers (Motorsport Tech), Baja Roof Rack
20th Oct 2017 10:29 pm
galwaygreen
Member Since: 30 Oct 2011
Location: plymouth
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possibly drop the top or bottom ball joint off....just saying..maybe
20th Oct 2017 11:21 pm
Globetrotter448
Member Since: 21 Mar 2017
Location: Londonderry NSW
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how did you get it through the lower arm initially - reverse the procedure. Might also be the wrong thickness bush/collar etc
21st Oct 2017 5:07 am
philm
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Try spring compressors.L633 Defender
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21st Oct 2017 9:37 am
Pete K
Member Since: 15 Jan 2016
Location: GL
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2 men are always useful for these dam jobs
someone under the car with a big flat blade screwdriver to leaver to strut away from where its sat to align with where its meant to be. (i.e to get the 2 holes in rough horizontal alignment.
then slowly jack it to get vertical alignment.
you could probably do it with a screw driver from the top and jack with other hand
of even your foot maybe on the strut
you are trying to stop it catching on where ever its catching on
But yeah, as others have said, you will probably end up requiring spring compressors
21st Oct 2017 9:45 am
Globetrotter448
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