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We did my suspension in about 5-6 hours. If we did it again, we could probably do it in 4 hours or less.
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im doing my suspension this spring, cant wait to see how nong its gonna take
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Originally posted by Russell-3L:
im doing my suspension this spring, cant wait to see how nong its gonna take
You did an engine swap,, if it takes you over 4 hours for the suspension, then u,,,, u suck.  
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91 Escort GT (almost sold)
96 ATX Zetec (i brake to watch you swerve)
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WTB: Very cheap beater
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The first time you do it on the front its a [censored]. but you find easy ways to get it done. on my 95 we had the front left come unsplined. which was a total [censored] to work with and gave us a horrible opinion of the uninstall/install. When I got my 99, I was gonna pay someone to do it, and my dad said hell no we will do it again. Took us 12 hours max to pull them out of my 95, pull them out of my 99, swap them and reinstall them into the other car. The only part that took lots of time was installing it into my 95s front left. The rest was very easy.
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Unbolt the spindal from the A-arm and slide the spindal off the A-arm using some leverage to get it off. Get the biggest hammer you can and tap on the top of the spindal until the strut comes out. Make sure the strut is still attached to the strut towers so something is pulling up on the strut. Use lots of WD40. To get a new one in you'll want to sand out the inside of the spindal and sand down the strut a bit. Mine slid right back in after a bit of sanding but getting them out took a long time.
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Originally posted by Blackcoog:
Unbolt the spindal from the A-arm and slide the spindal off the A-arm using some leverage to get it off. Get the biggest hammer you can and tap on the top of the spindal until the strut comes out. Make sure the strut is still attached to the strut towers so something is pulling up on the strut. Use lots of WD40. To get a new one in you'll want to sand out the inside of the spindal and sand down the strut a bit. Mine slid right back in after a bit of sanding but getting them out took a long time.
damn straight, I didn't want to put dents in mine so I put a board in between and hammered the board, works wonders. Also when putting it back on, you can hit the side or the top of the spindle until the strut drops back in too. Its the quickest easiest way.
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Get a CD manual and follow the directions for suspension R&R. PM Todras for the manual!
-Andy
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The problem with America is stupidity.
I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment
for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety
labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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They guy who changed mine (after I got into it and recognized the limits of my patience and ability) had a HELL of a time with the front struts. What a stupid [censored] design.
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Actually is pretty common to have to take off the lower ball joint to remove the strut. Just because you don't understand something doesn't make it stupid. At least our lower ball joints don't fail like most older hondas.
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i had no problems doing my front struts. i compressed them as far as possible and they came right out, no problems. I dunno why everyone has such a hard time doing them. A brass hammer helps alot too!!! If the strut is stuck in the knuckle you can beat the sheeit out of it and not have to worry about destoying the knuckle with the brass. Oh and PATIENCE is the key once you lose it FORGET IT!!!! Anyone that lives by the BFH isn't a mechanic. Oh and if these cars where Hondas everything would be easy to work on and they wouldn't break all the time 
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