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jivepepper

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hotmustang331 said:
Yep everything seems pretty much normal. Actually my strut bolts stick up ALOT further out of the CC plate, but I wanted to make sure they wernt in a bind and compressed too much lol....after having my tokico snap on my I want to take 0 chances.

As far as your ride height is concerned, all you have to do is jack up one side of your car at a time, remove your tire, then get a C clamp and adjust it to hook into those slots on the adjuster, and then turn away Mark where it started and turn it until its about 3/4s of an inch from where you started....then repeat on the otherside. Problem solved
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So you used a C-Clamp as a wrench for the coilerover adjuster nut?
 

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Thats right....worked great on my QA1 coilovers. Wont work though on my MM coilovers, so I had to buy the $10 wrench...it has little tiny holes vs big slots. I bet to MAKE people buy their wrench LOL.
 

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hotmustang331 said:
Thats right....worked great on my QA1 coilovers. Wont work though on my MM coilovers, so I had to buy the $10 wrench...it has little tiny holes vs big slots. I bet to MAKE people buy their wrench LOL.
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Mine says no special tools needed?
 

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jivepepper said:
Mine says no special tools needed?
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hmm.. with my mm kit, i can raise and lower by hand... its hard to... sometimes i wish i had the spanner wrench, but it works...
jivepepper, i thought u said the setup was all the way up? cant go any further?
 

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Serper3 said:
hmm.. with my mm kit, i can raise and lower by hand... its hard to... sometimes i wish i had the spanner wrench, but it works...
jivepepper, i thought u said the setup was all the way up? cant go any further?
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Finally I got them pretty well to stock height. I just unbolted the top of the shock and lowered the the A-Arm down. Then I adjusted the coilover up until barely a little bit of the strut shaft came out the top coil over cap. Then I raised the A-arm up until I could Get the top nut back on and torqued it down

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