My weekend plans just went to $hit. I was putting my rear coilovers back on and broke the bolt on the upper mounting bracket. Thought I was doing pretty good at under 2hrs for the rear swap too.

The Haynes manual pg 10-2 is wrong. It says to tighten the upper mounting nuts 144-168ft lbs. Yeah, that's alot but similar to the piston rod nut and I didn't really think about it at the time. Rechecked the CD FSM and it says only 12-16lbs (much less than even the fronts).

Maybe my mistake will benefit somebody doing their own D2 or other installs.(Gotta order a new bracket on Monday from Calif).


Brian

 

man that sux. good luck.

 

OUCH!! i feel your pain on broken screws...ive broken the stock intake screw before and just recently i broke a lug nut stud! which is bout to cost me $70 for my F' up. o well live and learn

 

Well I neither bought a new part or went to a machine shop. Bought a Dremmel and some cold weld epoxy. I'm rather pleased at the solution.

Finished tightening up the front susp after assembling the rears; got the ride heights similar; jumped the car batt yet again with the Optima sitting idle in the garage for 6mo now.

The ride is much firmer - "read harsh". I had little appreciation for strut valving til now. It's like I went with firmer springs but w/o bounciness. Next to cornerweight & align...

 

What? Those are supposed to be at like 15-25ft/lbs.

 

yeah, i just drilled mine out...that took long enough..but worked just fine

 

I was going to change my haynes manual, but it says 144-168 INCH lbs. Its correct but very easy to do a gotcha. Multiply inch lbs by .083 to get ft lbs. Should be 12ft lbs to 14 for 1995-1998. 12ft lbs to 16ft lbs for 1999.

 

Unfortunately, if you had more experience would have made the ft-lb / in-lb very obvious. For example, you probably wouldn't have gotten the nuts off if they were at that torque.

Dave

 

When I first saw that I KNEW there was something wrong with that.. I checked the .orgy and sure enough 12-14ftlbs.

 

god damn! be easy next time, lol

Ant

 

Don't feel bad. Those damn inch/lbs and ft/lbs got me once too.

 

what kind of upper mounts are those?

 

Those are from the Progress coilovers.

This was my first time doing suspension work myself. Pulled the coilovers off, put a stock susp on. Few weeks later reversed it again. PITA as far as time since I had to assemble everything from parts but a good learning experience.

 

Don't feel bad dude, I did this exact same thing as well. I was rushing to get it done and didn't even pay attention to what I was doing. Broke that bish off good. Come to find out, if you drill out the hole a little, the bolt from my strut bar will fit. Plus its stronger than the stocker bolts.

But I am going to replace it anyway. I ordered the long travel mounts from the GD going on.

Later,
drew

 

my god 70 bucks for a lug nut stud???? DO IT YOURSELF for 5 dollars and a half hour

 

What are YOU talkin about?

drew