I just installed my front suspension (Tokico Illuminas w/ S-techs) it looks real nice, but when i turn the wheel ether way I'm hearing a dut, dut, dut type noise. SO I had my friend turn the steering wheel while I was out side the car and looked at the suspension, it seems like the springs are sliding. The springs are compressed and mounted on the strut, but they're sliding... what did i do wrong?

 

Has this happened to anyone? Does anyone have an Idea?

 

WTF

 

im guessin maybe your strut mounts arent sitting right on your spring

 

struts mounts arent clocked correctly or you forgot to put the bearing in. Or your bearings need to be changed

 

this happened to me before, you gotta take it back apart and make the top of the struts fit right and snug

 

That was the problem, I did that and it solved the problem. Suspension is sitting great, love it!

 

How you liking it man. Im going with same setup, but need struts.^^Any before and after pics.?

 

I love it, I have my adjustments on setting 4 all round, for comparison: (stiffness) it rides similar my friends Z06. You should definatly go with S-techs. I'm amazed it sits perfect. I'm glad I spent the money.

PS: I will post pictures for you today.

 

BEFORE


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Just a Joke, lol ^^^^

 

AFTER

 

Looks nice, man. Good job!

 

really nice. This makes me wanna drop immediately. Happy you liked it bro...Congrats.

 

nice job and the pics!

BTW, did you pack any greese for the strut bearing? going to do some suspension work myself next week, the bearing I got is just a plastic ring, still wondering how it will work ...

 

did u forget to to put the big rubber ring under the black cap that goes on top of the spring when ure ready to tighten the bolt down?

 

Na, I didn't use any grease. I read threw the Handling & suspension sticky, and it didn't say antyhing about grease. This is my first time though, so maybe I missed something.

 

Yes, I think I know what you're talking about. It's the bushing if i'm correct. It's the rubber piece that makes contact with both the black metal piece and the spring. It's a big piece, and hard to mis-place. Is that the piece you're talking about? If it is, I definatly kept that attached.

I think I'm still missing something, because, though it doesn't make the sound as bad as before, it still makes the same sound, but slightly less. I still haven't had an alignment though, though I doubt that will fix the problem.

 

Anyone know IF lack of grease might be the/an issue? About to replace mine, too.

 

I found out that if you regrease the strutmount bearing it will only last about a year. I ended up buying new ones, they run about 30 bucks a piece.

 

get it aligned

 

Great, I didn't see that either, guess I will do the same.