afg10000
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Folks -have to tell a story. First, here's the current situation. Getting ready to install lift. Already have Adjustable 5100's up front on zero setting with stock coils (sounds silly but front shocks needed replacing and already knew I'd be purchasing them in the near future). Was planning on leaving the stock coils on and lifting the shock perch to it's 3rd setting when we installed the lift.
Decided since I'm replacing basically the entire suspension with brand new stuff, probably ought put new coils up front, too.
Getting everything from Toytec so I decided on the 3" Toytec/Eibach coils, essentially rendering the adjustable part of the 5100 useless (being I'm only looking for 3"). I'm pretty sure all of this is fine and run of the mill stuff -here's the crazy part.
There's plenty of threads and research to find about spring compressors. The overall sentiment tends to say take the coilover to a shop and have them re-assemble them for a small fee. I would think any professional mechanic shop would have access to at least some fairly heavy-duty spring compressors and this should be a simple task.
We used a set of Harbor Freight bolt-claw ones to swap the completely destroyed stock shocks with the 5100's without much concern. My brother did express concern with using them to compress a longer spring enough to get them on (I'm assuming similar to the amount of compression that would be needed to install a spacer). They were fairly stressed just dealing with the stock springs.
Long story short -called all sorts of shops, including my normal shop, Toyota dealership and Local truck lift specialty shop - all said NO. Can't do it or too much liability. Only one I found was a suspension shop that said they wanted $100 a side. Not doing that.
This is what I described and asked: Can I bring you my coilovers and new coil springs? Can you then swap the springs out and re-assemble?
That's it. Don't require coilover install or anything else, just change the springs. Are all of these folks not understanding what I'm asking them to do? Am I describing this incorrectly? I understand this is a slightly dangerous job, but it's not that complicated of a procedure. Are IFS coilover set-ups a rare thing? Most folks couldn't seem to understand the difference between a coilover or strut. It seems a pretty simple procedure to me, providing you have the gear and necessary safety precautions.
Sorry about the long ass thread, just wanted to be thorough with my question.
Thanks everyone -
Decided since I'm replacing basically the entire suspension with brand new stuff, probably ought put new coils up front, too.
Getting everything from Toytec so I decided on the 3" Toytec/Eibach coils, essentially rendering the adjustable part of the 5100 useless (being I'm only looking for 3"). I'm pretty sure all of this is fine and run of the mill stuff -here's the crazy part.
There's plenty of threads and research to find about spring compressors. The overall sentiment tends to say take the coilover to a shop and have them re-assemble them for a small fee. I would think any professional mechanic shop would have access to at least some fairly heavy-duty spring compressors and this should be a simple task.
We used a set of Harbor Freight bolt-claw ones to swap the completely destroyed stock shocks with the 5100's without much concern. My brother did express concern with using them to compress a longer spring enough to get them on (I'm assuming similar to the amount of compression that would be needed to install a spacer). They were fairly stressed just dealing with the stock springs.
Long story short -called all sorts of shops, including my normal shop, Toyota dealership and Local truck lift specialty shop - all said NO. Can't do it or too much liability. Only one I found was a suspension shop that said they wanted $100 a side. Not doing that.
This is what I described and asked: Can I bring you my coilovers and new coil springs? Can you then swap the springs out and re-assemble?
That's it. Don't require coilover install or anything else, just change the springs. Are all of these folks not understanding what I'm asking them to do? Am I describing this incorrectly? I understand this is a slightly dangerous job, but it's not that complicated of a procedure. Are IFS coilover set-ups a rare thing? Most folks couldn't seem to understand the difference between a coilover or strut. It seems a pretty simple procedure to me, providing you have the gear and necessary safety precautions.
Sorry about the long ass thread, just wanted to be thorough with my question.
Thanks everyone -
