Take a look at what i found out i was riding on?

[Cocky]

Well i finally had my mechanic put her on the lift and I couldnt believe it. The previous owner did a hack job on the suspension just to lower it. Guess they couldnt remove the bolt from the bushing so obviously they heated the springs with a blowtorch until it was lowered. Here is a picture of the springs after they were removed. So they were replaced with a set of kyb shocks and struts and cant remember the name of the springs . My boy gave me his after he put on some eibach setup with tokiko springs. Just thought i would share my misfortune with the board.
Wish i knew where to find these guys. Id choke em until his head popped off.


One of them even broke off.

[cb7dazz]

yea i've had my share of broken strut bolts, they suck to get off. good job with that new suspension, wagons are soo dam sexy

[k-mart]

dammmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

glad you got it taken care of.

[amd3dnow3]

that samething happend when i try to remove the lower strut bolts on both my cb they snap, so i had to blow tourch the bushing and then use hammer and muscle to remove bolt its deff a aventure, but that person didnt even bother to fix it you could of killied your self like that crazy and lets not even talk about the springs onlything the comes to mind is lol, wtf.

[Maple50175]

shit man, glad u got it taken away

[motulcb7]

holy shit man...hack job and a half!! i dont understand why people try to find cheap solutions when modifying cars...anyways, glad to see its taken care of...any more plans for the wag??

[Father Time]

Damn, talk about cheap way out. At least your better off now, not to mention safer too. The things people do to save a buck.

[Cocky]

Yeah. got a couple other things i need to take care of on the wag like the little grinding going into third gear and the light smoke on start up. But i guess i can live with that until i find a tranny. I could use some nice stock rims or maybe 17s if i can find a good price. would love to do the H22 thing but it seems very costly.

[flight50]

my swap in my wagon wasn't to bad. i did a h22 auto swap though. i took out a loan to get the motor which was 1850 and used 1k from my savings account to pay for install. if i had known back then what i know now, i could have saved that grand and done the swap myself. i am gonna be doing my own 5spd swap with the help of a friend next month for sure.

[Cocky]

So u really think i can do a h22 myself? If so how long does it take?
My mechanic says he wants 1,500 for the install.

[BL2CM-510]

I think I've seen those bolts stuck more than any other "common" trait for any other car. What works for me is if I'm just changing the spring, I unbolt the LCA at both ends, and the top of the strut, and leave the strut and LCA bolted together while I change the spring. If I need to change the strut, I just torch the tabs off the strut and torch the bushing out, and replace the bushing and bolt. There comes a time when your labor times exceed your parts cost if you are willing to break a few small, replaceable items. This is one of them.

[Dinner_Time]

Wow,that's scary. Good thing you did the work now and not any later.

[Geist Zero]

Man if I were you I would go over and carefully recheck everything the previous owner did. Let me ask you didn't your cars handling feel strange compared to other cb's you have ridden in? I dunno I guess it would be possible not to really notice it.

[tunerman]

for sure, not a cool thing the previous owner did. good thing it was found, or it could have been worse in the long term.

[j2g87]

ok now i see why u dont heat springs