i did mine, you should buy the pillow mounts so that way you dont have to compress the spring. just drop the old ones out and install the new ones.

 

yeah...what rice said!

 

arent' they pre assembled? mine came preassembled with pillow ball tops. or did you take them apart first?

 

i had always thought they came assembled, regardless of whether they had pillow ball mounts or not....i dunno...

 

they come preassmebled, butt you need to top them off with someting, like teins pillow ball mounts or your stock mounts, if you dont have the tein ones, in my case the ss's didnt come with any, you need to disassemble your stock spring/strut assembly to get the old mounts off.

 

He got the ones that look like this:


The pillowball mount is optional on the SS line.

 

well try northern or harbourfreight. they both have sring compresors for around 15-20 bones.

 

yea, i got the one's without pillowball mounts, they now sell the s.s. coilovers w/ optional pillowball mounts. i'm not gonna get any though, i'll just buy a spring compressor and change them up this thanksgiving in my garage...

 

buy the right tools!! advance auto sells spring compressors for $30!! its an investment worth...ugh...investing in!


from my experience. make sure u have instructions. b/c otherwise, coilovers will eat ur asshole if u dont know what ur doing.
i'll need the spring compressors for the stock springs, but they wont be useful on the coilovers because the compressor can clamp on the coil b/c the sleave is in the way.