Are These Installed Right?

BosnianLanos · Post by **BosnianLanos** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:32 am

Hey guys! Sorry for the long hiatus. Don't worry, everything's cool, still own both Daewoos, just busy with school (again!)

I got the car lowered over summer (June) and as I didn't have the tools or the space to do the work, I had a guy from the local car forums help me out. Poor guy took the whole day to get it all done. The fronts gave us hell...the angles made the removal of the old springs really hard, and the almost-welded tie rods didn't help either. But we got it done, and the car drives just dandy, nice and tight like it should be.

Today, after rotating my tires, I noticed that the rear springs looked a little odd. Almost like they're upside down. Granted, the writing IS right-side-up, but it would go to logic that the wider part of the springs would face the ground, and not the body of the car.

Are the springs upside down, do I have to flip them, or does it make no difference?

The springs are H&R Sport Springs.

greenbluewoo · Post by **greenbluewoo** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:20 am

yes thats upside down but I dont no if it will affect anything

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:46 am

they are up side down indeed

i say put them in the correct position to remove any possibility of problems in the future

MMamdouh

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:20 pm

MMamdouh wrote:they are up side down indeed

i say put them in the correct position to remove any possibility of problems in the future

MMamdouh

Agreed

Pir0 · Post by **Pir0** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:31 pm

Not a tough job at all, half hour to an hour at the most. Jack both sides of the rear up like you've done with that one side.

Remove both wheels, and undo the handbrake cables. Then just get someone to hold the beam as you undo the 2 shock top bolts. Lots of jacks come in handy as you could probably do with a third jack to hold the beam up as you redo the shock top bolts.

Another way a friend of mine does it, it, get your spare tyre/wheel. Set it on the back, and use it to jack up the rear of the car using the jack+tyre combo, under your spare tyre well. The tyre on the jack helps spread out the load and hes done this loads of times including on my own. It means you can let the jack down slowly and make sure the springs are positioned correctly as it lets itself down.

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:47 pm

jack the car up, support it with jack stands on the body (let the rear wheels swing freely) remove the top shock bolts, the rear axle will drop down, flip springs use the jack to raise the rear axle up into place, tighten the nuts adn put the car back on the ground, job done!

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:42 pm

daewoomofo wrote:jack the car up, support it with jack stands on the body (let the rear wheels swing freely) remove the top shock bolts, the rear axle will drop down, flip springs use the jack to raise the rear axle up into place, tighten the nuts adn put the car back on the ground, job done!

This is how I'd do it.

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 2:20 pm

why do you use the top shock bolts??

i used to take off the lower ones... keeps all the work at the rear wheel area

MMamdouh

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 2:42 pm

the lower ones would work just fine too. but the reason i do the top is that when you put the car on the ground you dont have to align the bolt holse up so that a bolt can go through, you jsut have to get the shaft in the hole. once its on the ground you can the reach in and put the shock nuts on. either way would work. but honestly, fron the pics of bosnianslanos's car it looks like he has the origional shocks on his car, id just get new ones and put them on when i flip the springs

Rodd1s · Post by **Rodd1s** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:01 pm

my springs are installed "upside down" aswell like those in the pic, and the only defect that ive noticed is occasional knocking from the exhaust cos where the coils are wider its closer to the pipe... duno if that makes sense, but ye. as far as handling goes, theres no difference i think.