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It's been a very long week, and I topped it off with a complete suspension swap in the Festy! I replaced all 4 struts, lower control arms, strut mounts, tie rod ends....pretty much everything. The day ended with a parking lot alignment job. (all it takes is a good measuring tape, and a wrench)
The only hitch for the day was desperately driving around town trying to find replacement bolts for the lower shock mounts on the rear end. I drove around for 2 hours, and no one happened to have that size of metric bolt in stock at the moment. I even tried raiding the bolt bins at work, but even Porsche didn't have any fine thread, 10 x 1.25 metric bolts on hand. Weird.
Got it done anyway using a little imagination.
The car handles like a dream now, although I do miss the incredibly cushy ride created by 4 totally bagged out shocks.
Jim
The only hitch for the day was desperately driving around town trying to find replacement bolts for the lower shock mounts on the rear end. I drove around for 2 hours, and no one happened to have that size of metric bolt in stock at the moment. I even tried raiding the bolt bins at work, but even Porsche didn't have any fine thread, 10 x 1.25 metric bolts on hand. Weird.
Got it done anyway using a little imagination.
The car handles like a dream now, although I do miss the incredibly cushy ride created by 4 totally bagged out shocks.
Jim
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