I got my GC's last night (damn are they small compared to stock springs!) and was looking over the install directions (which aren't great). I rears look pretty straight forward, but I have a couple of questions about the front springs installs:

* The picutre in the instructions shows 2 of the O-Rings per strut, however, the kit only came with 1 per front spring. Is that normal?
* How does the front spring sit on the strut. With the gold adjuster all the way down (which may be too low) the spring won't get happy because its a flat surface attempting to sit on an angled one.

Thanks.

 

Me too!!!!
Some one please respond. I'm doing my install as soon as I buy a spring compressor.

 

You should've gotten 2 o-rings. One o-ring might cause the sleeve to jiggle.

You won't have the gold adjuster all the way down, unless you have some 8" springs. At a certain point, the perch will hit the spring seat, so that is as far down as you can go (which will give you more than enough drop to make you happy).

 

Did you just get 1 o-ring per front spring? If so, I assume that normal.

 

Cool, that's all I needed to know. Thanks Kev.

 

I'll check when I get home.

 

Kev (or anyone)-

Did you use any kind of wrap or insulator on the GC spring like people do with stock diameter springs? Would to coils of these springs (I got the default size and rates) ever touch?

 

Nope. Neither Jane nor my GC springs make any weird noises.

They would touch if you bottom out.

 

I just got my GC yesterday too. I also only got 1 o-ring per front spring. The pic clearly showed 2 o-ring per front spring. Now what?

 

Here's the deal. I just called Ground Control, and they said that you only need 1 of the o-rings. He said that the reason that they use to supply two is that because they are such a tight fit, people would typically push them down and they would not get in between the sleve and the strut.

He said that if we're careful to get the o-ring as high up as possiable on the sleve, it will be just fine.

I still think two would be a better idea. I'm gonna see if I can find any around here.

 

Rubber bands. j/k

I'm sure you can find a suitable o-ring at Home Depot.

 

Is camber plate/bolt necessary or optional? IIRC, a few members who have GCs didn't have camber plate/bolt. How about an alignment, someone told me to have it at the height I'll ride around most often and then get it align. Right?

 

Camber adjustment would be nice, but I don't think its required. An alignment is recommended every time you do any major suspension work.

 

eric, if you want to look at my install to see how anything sits then just let me know... its not that hard to pull off a wheel and take a look

 

Yeah, I was going to ask you in a few weeks. I'm going out of town next week, but I'll be back the weekend of 3/30 and was going to give you call.

I think I got it now, but I guess it couldn't hurt to take a look. Do you know how many of those o-rings were in your kit? Do you know if autocrafting installed them with 1 or 2 rings?

 

i got a package of o rings from grount countrol. i am useing two o rings it tricky with two thogh you have to keep them seperated far enough so when you install the sleeve to orings won't be to close toghter.

 

On the front, should anything be placed between the strut perch and the red sleeve?

Is it ok for it to slide down into the perch?

The rears have a large washer to accomodate the sleeve (sit on) but the fronts don't. Is this right?

Thanks for your help...

 

ok yeah it would be better to put some O rings in the front because you wouldn't want the sleeve moving around when your taking corners. everthing sould be nice and solid. so thats why i used the o rings. since i have agxs i was not able to use the large rubber washer so i had to use the thin o rings on the backs.

 

Why can't you use that washer? I didn't put them on, but it all looked like it was going top fit together without a problem.