GTG: Lennys for suspension on 1 possibly 2 B6's

[IATURBOA4]

Where:
3410 Royal Ave
Marion, IA 52302

When:
9am so its not so freaking hot

What:
Gonna throw some neuspeed race springs on my B6 A4 and possibly on manguyen B6 A4. Should be a good time

[manguyen]

i will be attending every single one of these suspension GTG until the springs get on my car :)..... plus it'll be nice to meet some of you guys around here before i go back to Ames.

[turboA4]

i will be attending every single one of these suspension GTG until the springs get on my car

hahaha...whats this....like number 46 or what>?!?! :eek:

[manguyen]

marcus... the number is high.... watch i wont get dropped until xmas with all the snow out there.... just in time to plow the roads.

[DSV]

watch i wont get dropped until xmas with all the snow out there.... just in time to plow the roads.

That's the best time to be lowered. :tu:

[OrangeDUB]

So did you get your springs??!?!

[IATURBOA4]

Yup sitting in my trunk...oh yea

[DSV]

Gotta love it when new parts arrive. :tu:

[OrangeDUB]

Yup sitting in my trunk...oh yea

Sweet I'm gonna stop by at some point in the day and watch you monkeys.

[lenny]

I'm not a monkey, I train them
-Dan

[OrangeDUB]

you train evil monkeys and then put wings on them and send them out your window on doom raids you EVIL BASTAGE!!!!!

[lenny]

YEah, upper control arm to wheel hub assembly bolts can blow me
Before
http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v110/136/81/71803328/n71803328_31238491_7327.jpg
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v110/136/81/71803328/n71803328_31238492_7571.jpg
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[DSV]

Did Minh get his suspension on?

[lenny]

We're doing that next
We're taking a break right now. LOL
-Dan

[lenny]

Well, I've been done now for an hour or so. Took Us only about 5 hours to do the entire job on Minh's(sp?) car. The car came apart much easier than Jared's did. Jared will have to post his final pictures from his digicam tomorrow. As for now, here's some ****ty cell phone pictures. I'm tired, and taking a shower and going to bed.
Backing out for a test drive. Famous HID shot
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v103/136/81/71803328/n71803328_31239200_4157.jpg
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v103/136/81/71803328/n71803328_31239201_4438.jpg
http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v103/136/81/71803328/n71803328_31239202_4722.jpg
All in all. It was a long, tiring, frustrating, and fun day. And we all kept all of our fingers :)
-Dan

[GetAwayFromMe]

Before
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n196/bigpimp007/n71803328_31238493_7807.jpg

After
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n196/bigpimp007/n71803328_31239202_4722.jpg
That's a pretty nice drop i cant wait til i get my coils

[SirRangeALot]

Nice! :tu:

[DSV]

The car looks awesome Mihn! Glad you were finally able to get the suspension on after all these months. :D

[IATURBOA4]

Here she is finally lowered and looking sexy ill add some more once i get her all washed up soon. Also is the pic of the springs compared to each other (from left) Front stock, neuspeed race front, Rear stock, neuspeed race rear. haha just a lil difference

[manguyen]

haha after all these months. i got them on finally, but i think my front shocks are blown... they are making a crazy thumpy noise... Dan can jump in on this.. he heard the noise tooo. Im not 100% sure its the shocks, but i am going to order a new front set... lesson learn'd. Dont buy used shocks. would it be weird if i had koni rears and bilstein fronts? hehehe

someone just confirm!!! thumping noise over every bump = shocks... that is if im not rubbing on anything.

[lenny]

This picture pretty much sums up the day
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v108/61/85/14803601/n14803601_35700820_1670.jpg

[lenny]

haha after all these months. i got them on finally, but i think my front shocks are blown... they are making a crazy thumpy noise... Dan can jump in on this.. he heard the noise tooo. Im not 100% sure its the shocks, but i am going to order a new front set... lesson learn'd. Dont buy used shocks. would it be weird if i had koni rears and bilstein fronts? hehehe

someone just confirm!!! thumping noise over every bump = shocks... that is if im not rubbing on anything.

You can check if your struts are bad. If they are leaking in the next few days then they are bad. (the previous owner may have wiped them clean, now that they're back in use if they ever leaked they will resume leaking). Also, one way to check your struts is by pushing one side of your car down in the front and try to get it rocking. Quit rocking it. If it stops once it comes back up, they're good, if not, they're not. Usually if it comes back up to ride height, then one slight dip after that, they're good as well. IF it continues to rock you may want to look into bilsteins....DO NOT GET THE HDs as the valves are not set up for lowered cars.

Really the only bolt that may be possibly mis-torqued is the lower control arm to the strut clevis (bottom of the strut). I didn't take a look at either one of them (driver or passenger side) after you guys put them in and I apologize for that. They are basically the only bolt on the suspension that can cause that "clunk" if it's not torqued correctly. That bolt acts as sort of as a tensioning device to squeeze the strut clevis around the lower control arm. If it's not tight enough, then the clevis will not sit tightly around the lower control arm and it will move/clunk when the assembly compresses. I was so tired last night and 1 AM that I couldn't think of any of this. I apologize again. See if you can get under the car and crank those lower bolts at all. I wanna say they're roughly 18 and 19mm for the bolt and nut. Off the top of my head they take 90 NM plus a half turn for stock shocks (thats about 65-70 foot lbs + a half turn) They should be VERY tight and there should be no spacing between the strut clevis and the strut mount bushing. Tighten them up if you can turn them at all and see if it goes away. Or you could swing up around noon one of these days (I don't work until 4 everyday this week) and I could throw an air socket+torque wrench on them just to double check everything. I should have done that saturday but I was busting ass on the rear and I read off the torque specs to Jared. Sometimes when doing the lower strut clevis you can get a false torque reading depending on the type of metal/width of the clevis (Harder metals take more torque to successfully "hug" the lower control arm). I blame no-one but myself for that mistake (if that is truely the problem) because as I said, I didn't double check it. I know what to look for and I overlooked it. Let me know if you can come up in the next day or 2. You have my number
-Dan

[SirRangeALot]

Looks sweet, Jared!! I can't wait to get mysuspension! :tu:

[lenny]

haha after all these months. i got them on finally, but i think my front shocks are blown... they are making a crazy thumpy noise... Dan can jump in on this.. he heard the noise tooo. Im not 100% sure its the shocks, but i am going to order a new front set... lesson learn'd. Dont buy used shocks. would it be weird if i had koni rears and bilstein fronts? hehehe

someone just confirm!!! thumping noise over every bump = shocks... that is if im not rubbing on anything.

Hey Mihn, if you're gonna be in town this weekend we could quick throw on your stock struts on saturday morning. See if it still clunks (I'm guessing it wont). This should prove my theory that your struts are bad.
-Dan