OK i got the new spring on the rear shock and now i can't even get the shock hole CLOSE to the mount. WHAT DO I DO TO MAKE IT FIT, it's getting dark and i'm pretty well screwed!

 

Can you describe the problem a little more?
You mean the lower mount or the upper one to the trunk?
Also, why exactly do you think things aren't going back in?

 

Don't worry about it, he got it to work.

 

If Medics right then ignore my post. What I think happend is when you put your shocks/springs on your Strut tower mount thingies you threw it out of allighnement. The best way to get it back into alighnment is to twist the top of your suspention{the ST thingy} back into place. It's been a while but I believe there is only 3 possible combinations, one of them is correct and the other two a wrong.

 

I know what you are talking about and i fixed that, i figured out that you need to turn it. But I had the car jacked up by the rear axle so the distance between the whole were the shock goes and the mount was small. i put the axle on jack stands and then jacked it up by the spare tire well and it open up the distance and went right in. now i just stripped the last bolt on the other side. car looks funny, three lowered corners!