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[rally25rs]

Having some problems making things fit.
I have a coilover kit from OPM and Tokico Illuminas.

You can see in the first picture how I have the coilover kit assembled on the shock.
Then I put the shock up into the shock tower, so that the top coilover mount touches the actual car body.
On the top of the body (in the hatch) I put the factory rubber spacer and metal washer back on.
Now the problem is that the threads on the shock stick up too far for the nut to tighten far enough. You can see this is the 2nd picture.
It seems like there should be another spacer somewhere to take up the gap, but what/where?
Also, the shock originally came with a long metal tube that should insert into the rubber spacer, but it also does not fit anywhere any more.

What am I missing or doing wrong?

[rally25rs]

well i think i might have figured it out... I found another pair of the rubber bushings and stuck those on the bottom side... now it sits about right. Maybe that was how it was supposed to go... maybe not... i dunno...
I'm just happy that for the 1st time in a year, the car is now sitting on its own rear wheels again, instead of jackstands

[C8V6C]

lol, gald ya figured it out

[G1tegZc]

I have illuminas with coil over's on my g1 teg (same exact suspension as you guys.... I put mine together...(not in a kit)
my springs were a little wider than yours....so I didn't have to use those aluminium cone shaped adapters.....
they just fit right in the stock spring spot....


what pound are those coils?

Edited by G1tegZc, 09 May 2005 - 08:43 PM.

[mayhem019]

they sent two diff nuts for me to use. the self locking ones and the other ones... i used the non locking nuts. i should double up on em though i think because one looks kind of wimpy. mine look identical to yours in height but i dont know why they made them that way.. it also sucks not having the little numbers to say what setting they're on. weird

[E-AT_me]

hey, do you still have your stock dust shields? if so, cut them apart and take out the little metal washer inside. you need this. it stops the shock from doing what you explained. a rubber bushing isn't going to help at all. your shocks are going to still push through and the ride will probably be too bouncy.

[rally25rs]

nope they are in a landfill by now

[rally25rs]

hey, do you still have your stock dust shields? if so, cut them apart and take out the little metal washer inside. you need this. it stops the shock from doing what you explained. a rubber bushing isn't going to help at all. your shocks are going to still push through and the ride will probably be too bouncy.

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I found a set of those stock dustguards in the garage and cut them up to get the metal washers out... that can't be right though because they don't fit over the top of the coilover topmounts.