okay i've got agx's and agx strut boots. i tried fitting the strut boots and s.tech springs on them to make sure everything's okay, and the fronts go together fine, but the rear boots are too wide for the springs to go over them. has anyone else run into this? the spring sits in the seat perfect without the boot, and the boot fits perfect without the spring, but the spring and the boot can't both be on at the same time....unless there's something i'm missing...
has anyone seen negative effects from not using boots on their agx's?
agx struts and strut boots
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the other boots don't fit on the rear struts.i took some pics to maybe better explain it.http://www.geocities.com/imadr....html
Well, although my set up is different from you guys, I assume they should be similiar.
My experience with KYB shock bellows:I had to cut one complete coil of bumpstops in order to reserve enough compression travel for my HTS shocks plus KG/MM spirngs combination. They fit ok except the bottom portion is bit too big than shock body so I used plastic tie to secure it.
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My experience with KYB shock bellows:I had to cut one complete coil of bumpstops in order to reserve enough compression travel for my HTS shocks plus KG/MM spirngs combination. They fit ok except the bottom portion is bit too big than shock body so I used plastic tie to secure it.
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Thats weird, so it got me thinking. I went out to the garage and looked at mine. I have Eibach's and AGX's, and ordered new (KYB) strut boots (the old strut boots crumble when you touch them!) with them. The strut boots are snug going into the rear spring, but they do fit.MY best guess it that your old boots have expanded over time, which is probably why they dont fit. This post probably has a help factor of about zero, but at least you know the KYB boots will fit! (KYB boots=10 buck apeice at tirerack)
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driftaholic wrote:the boots i got are part numbers SB103 and SB104. is this what other people got?
i doubt the eibachs are a different diameter than the teins, so if these are the right part numbers, i guess i'll have to just MAKE them fit
Mine are SB103 and SB108.???? One of us got sent the rwong part.
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Ok guys i think i may have it figured out. I too had the same problem today with my rear strut boots (KYB). I have a S14 so the front ones are SB103's and the rears are SB108's. Now the front ones were perfect, no troubles at all. However the rear ones were nothing like the old ones and they didn't seem to fit over the strut. So i just figured that I would go to the shop i ordered them from and tell them they gave me the wrong part. So i did, and they checked the model # and it was the right part, so they called KYB. And according to KYB Nissan has changed the design since the last one was flawed in some way. So they assured me that if i ordered them from nissan i would get the same part. If you look at them closely you'll notice that they're tapered inside. So they told me to put a little oil on the inside tappered edge and force it on until it's where it should be.
Hope this helps, i won't know until next week though cause i won't get a chance to work on it until then...
Hope this helps, i won't know until next week though cause i won't get a chance to work on it until then...
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. can i get some at Advanced auto parts or something??? My OEM ones are DONE.-
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driftaholic wrote:ha! i didn't even know i HAD oem boots til started examining things, and i was like "what are all these rubber rings for?" haha the boots had deteriorated that much
You too? Mine crumble into black dust when you touch them!
I plan on putting on my springs/struts/boots tomorrow, (providing i can get a spring compressor) i'll let you guys know how the boots fit.
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Re: Question
'Fraid not. The boots are definitely worth the cost and the time to install, IMO.Nissan24z wrote:Can you put boots on without taking the struts back off?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but the KYB boots should be just fine. The OE ones are incredibly expensive for a big chunk of rubber, and according to KYB the design of the boot was changed on the OE part as well as the KYB part.TurboKA37 wrote:ok so what did they decide in this thread? im installing some AGX's on my S14 and need boots. neither pep boys or autozone has any. should i order some sotck ones from nissan or get some KYB boots?
Read Redline's post a bit further up the page. He describes how to get the boot on. FWIW, I have an S13 and KYB boots on the front struts...they're cheap and get the job done. It's really not a complex part.