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Originally Posted by Memphis
The PROKIT were bought off of Tire Rack. He got them specifically for the FR-S and does have the reciept and pictures of the box as well as picture of the car.
He is sending them to my email and I will post them ASAP.
Shocks are leaking bad.
And now that I think about it, his kit sure as hell sits a lot lower than a Prokit should. Its about where a Sportline kit would sit :p
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That makes more sense that it's a Pro-Kit and not the Sportline. The Pro-Kit is a 1" drop and our engineers say there is no way that our springs would cause the factory dampers to leak.
What happened? There's a couple of things. I'm by no way discrediting your friend or Toyota technicians. I am simply posting this information for others to see so they do not make a common mistake with installing our spring kit or other spring kits.
We found out the hard way that if you zap off the factory top nut with an impact gun that you can actually spin the shaft internally causing it to click. If you spin the shaft too far this will cause the shaft to come disassembled internally and could, over time, cause the shock to leak.
There is a special tool that needs to be used to lock the shaft from spinning when assembling and disassembling the front suspension.
If the special tool was not used and something else was used to hold the shaft, this could cause scoring on the shaft that could damage the internal seals, thus causing the damper to leak.
Has your friend called Eibach directly so our techs can help diagnose what is going?