Last night I was called by a friend who knows I do car work becuase he was driving the '98 Civic he just bought over the railroad tracks and something popped and the RF tire buried into the fender.
I got to it, jacked it up and found it had this cheezy lowering kit on the stock strut. It had a blue powdercoated spring, with a threaded pipe that slips over the strut with a collar that you use to adjust the final height of the car.
It had lost its bolt and split, letting the spring fall loose. It doesn't help that the genius that installed them put the collar upside down so the spring couldn't hold it. The other side has a broken screw on the collar and the only thing holding it is the spring via that tab that is supposed to align the spring.
Just for reference, this is the other side. Ive already unscrewed it to allow removal of the strut at this point.
So what was my fix to get him the 20 miles to my place?
Piece of aluminium bent into a shape that would fit around the strut and bolted together.
Some sort of rackmount stereo equipment plate. This picture was taken after I got the car to my garage and apart. It didn't hurt it at all. For sure stronger than the other side. At least, I would trust it more that that spring holding that collar.
Its getting a set of junkyard struts and springs for now to get him back to Seattle.
I got to it, jacked it up and found it had this cheezy lowering kit on the stock strut. It had a blue powdercoated spring, with a threaded pipe that slips over the strut with a collar that you use to adjust the final height of the car.
It had lost its bolt and split, letting the spring fall loose. It doesn't help that the genius that installed them put the collar upside down so the spring couldn't hold it. The other side has a broken screw on the collar and the only thing holding it is the spring via that tab that is supposed to align the spring.
Just for reference, this is the other side. Ive already unscrewed it to allow removal of the strut at this point.
So what was my fix to get him the 20 miles to my place?
Piece of aluminium bent into a shape that would fit around the strut and bolted together.
Some sort of rackmount stereo equipment plate. This picture was taken after I got the car to my garage and apart. It didn't hurt it at all. For sure stronger than the other side. At least, I would trust it more that that spring holding that collar.
Its getting a set of junkyard struts and springs for now to get him back to Seattle.