If I remember correctly you cut the top, bottom has to rest correctly on the strut plate...cut the ring directly below where the coil begins.

Better do the wrong thing the right way than do the wrong thing the wrong way.

E0 #4384 of 6535 Born Jan. 9 1998 My SVT from the ashes 147,466 miles, purchased Nov. 2002 @ 76,559 miles