urgent help required lowering

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loud
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urgent help required lowering

Post by loud »

trying to lower the front of my car, passenger side went fine but drivers side is being a ****

it wont drop far enough to get the strut out, driveshaft seems to be stopping it dropping...arb is disconnected

any ideas?
panda
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Post by panda »

dude,
you need to remove the driveshaft, gearbox end, that'll give you enough room to remove the strut.
loud
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Post by loud »

well we couldn't get the ball joint to split but ended up disconnecting some various other bits and managing to get it in with the springs under full compression...what a bloody job!
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Post by panda »

its not hard tbh, just the drivers side you need to remove the driveshaft from the gearbox side.
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Post by loud »

we didn't remove the driveshaft, we did it a very unorthodox way :roll:
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