How to give your car the blues?

[nissanforlife]

i picked myself up a set of tokico blues.. finally.. now i was wondering... How hard are they to install, wut iz involved and needed to make it into a DIY'er.. haven't done suspension on a car before. or is it just worth it to have a shop do it? (bout how much would that be.. roughly?)

[DAEDALUS]

You'll need more than just the blues. How about strut bushings, dust boots, and isolators? Good time to replace the sway bar bushings too. You will THANK yourself.

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[JedCoop]

What Daedalus said... the rubber will be shot.

It doesn't really take that long. I used a rented strut spring compressor - $6 for two days - had it done a few hours.

Just go slow and handle the springs nicely when compressing/compressed. I also used a vice to hold the strut firmly in place when taking them apart and putting them together. Only the rears required a little shove with a crowbar in order to get them in and out once they were unbolted - the fronts practially fell out.

The one tricky/annoying part was making sure you put the strut together so that the angle of the bolts on top when installed makes the angle of the bottom of the strut line up with the lower bolt. I had to take my first strut apart a second time to re-align this.


Modified by JedCoop at 8:51 PM 6/22/2005

[nissanforlife]

Okay.. dust boots.. coming with the struts.. wut are the part numbers on strut bushings and isolators... and sway bar bushings.. and how much are they?Also, does anyone have an estimate of wut a shop might charge to do the work?

couldn't find any place to rent a spring compressor locally.. not that close anywayz...

[maxnix]

Labor rates are subject to regional variation and technician competence, tools, and overhead. So no rule of thumb. Most will flat rate ou tof hte book. About 2 hrs. of real labor if correctly equipped.

Call Joe for the parts. Numbers may even be up on the web site.

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