Installing coilovers in a few hours. Anything I should know?

[Kendallkab]

Soo I'm going to be attempting to install tein flex z coilovers in a few hours.. I'm new to modding cars. And have never really dome things like this. My frirmd is helping me. Is there anything I should know the diy post doesn't cover. I'm also painting my headlight housings black while doing this.

[MarkR171]

Focus on one thing at a time. Any job with cars thats listed as taking X hours will take 2X hours. The diy post is probably fine, coilovers are fairly straightforward as long as you follow instructions. Just make sure you get an alignment after.

[finch1750]

^thats good advice. Everything will always take longer then the DIY says, especially if it is your first time and you are new to working on cars.

Also, when installing the rear make sure your parking brake is off.

[Mr.ac]

Research, look at vids, diy's, read up, do your homework, get all the tools you would need. Take your time. Don't do two things at the same time. Work on your coil overs then work on your shitty headlights

[ryoma]

keep a jack handy for the rears. you might need to jack up the rear lower control arms into the mounting point for the rear coilovers. also get a strap tool so that you can tighten the top nut of the coils without spinning the shock shaft. if the coilovers are non-adjustable and have a hex insert, then get a pass-through socket and a hex wrench to tighten it. spinning the shock shaft too much might blow the seals on it. if the coilovers are adjustable, do NOT use a hex tool to hold the shaft from spinning but use the strap tool instead

[Kendallkab]

Everything went great. I hear it noise like metal hitting metal when I'm on bad roads tho. How do I fix?

[gramicci101]

Originally Posted by Kendallkab

Everything went great. I hear it noise like metal hitting metal when I'm on bad roads tho. How do I fix?

Check the torque on everything, especially your swaybar end links.

[finch1750]

^that

[Kendallkab]

Sounds good.. as soon as I have access to the tools again I will.

[cjd]

Originally Posted by Kendallkab

Sounds good.. as soon as I have access to the tools again I will.

Metal hitting metal isn't the usual description of a swaybar issue... I'd find a way to get access to tools sooner than later. I'd also do an inspection sooner, even without tools.

[Kendallkab]

Originally Posted by cjd

Metal hitting metal isn't the usual description of a swaybar issue... I'd find a way to get access to tools sooner than later. I'd also do an inspection sooner, even without tools.

The metal sound is gone.. I just hear popping sometime now.. any way to make that go away I would just like to know what it's coming from

[jasonojordan]

Check your struts top nut to make sure they did not loosen up on you.

[Bowen]

Originally Posted by Kendallkab

The metal sound is gone.. I just hear popping sometime now.. any way to make that go away

I had a clanking metal noise every time I hit a bump when I installed my coils. Turns out I didn't torque down the top nut on each tophat. That's probably your issue.

[renfield90]

Double check that your front sway bar isn't making contact with the control arms. This happens on some twins, especially when lowered. The solution is shorter endlinks.

To hell with the torque spec on the endlinks, get them on as tight as you can with a socket or wrench. They like to come loose. If you want to definitively identify this as the source of the noise, drive around with them disconnected.

Double check torque on the two strut bolts - you actually want the torque wrench on the nut, not on the bolt. I've made this mistake and they came loose due to lack of torque, I like to overtorque by ~5 ft-lbs here.