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[landscribble]

Hey people, heres whats up. my rear coilover(s) off my 33 gtst have been making a decent thudding noise everytime i go over a bump, for a good 4 months or so. wasnt really fussed as i was told they just get noisy overtime yet can still functon properly. though i noticed over the last few days the outerwall of my rear left tyre is peeling off strips of rubber from scraping the inner wheel arch.

If they are knackered, is it worth reconditioning them, or just replacing them? THanks.



*EDIT* jesus i think my brain just got hi-jacked for a while there.. i dont have friggen tein coilovers, they are actually HKS LOL, dunno what i was thinking sorry.

well thanks anyway Rhys, ill try steer clear from teins in the future for that reason. and nah im no circuit racer

[NA_Goodness]

You'll have to send them over east to rebuild them, and the costs add up. From what I've read, it pretty much costs the same either way, although the upside is you can have them rebuilt to any specs you want. However, you never struck me as the serious circuit racer, so that may not excite you a whole lot.

[Nak]

ouch welcome to the world of tien coils for some reason they all seem to do that now.
Bilstein ftw yeh go nays car

[NA_Goodness]

Haha, good work. HKS are even more expensive, pretty much throw sways when fucked. I love my TIENs, would definitely buy again.

[lunjiaow]

i think someone on skylinesaus mentioned they got their tiens rebuilt from wa suspensions.

[2LV8ETR]

I rebuilt my HKS ones. Got the gear off eBay, less than $300.00 for all 4.

[landscribble]

No kidding Allen? I like the sound of this, would you/someone know if a suspension shop can rebuild them if i supply the parts? I wouldnt know where to start doing it myself.

[2LV8ETR]

The best thing you can do is check all of the bushings and the pillowball mounts for signs of wear.

It's easy to remove them one at a time with a couple of spanners and a jack, literally. They are so easy to do. You'll more than likely find the bushings to be worn out, which is causing the knocking.

Steps:
1: Loosen wheel nuts.
2: Jack car each wheel at a time.
3: Remove wheel.
4: Undo lower pin nut.
5: Undo top nuts at tower.
6: pull out coilover.

This should take you about an hour. It is THAT easy.

[landscribble]

I'll see if i can check them out on the weekend, cheers Allen.

[landscribble]

The best thing you can do is check all of the bushings and the pillowball mounts for signs of wear.

It's easy to remove them one at a time with a couple of spanners and a jack, literally. They are so easy to do. You'll more than likely find the bushings to be worn out, which is causing the knocking.

Steps:
1: Loosen wheel nuts.
2: Jack car each wheel at a time.
3: Remove wheel.
4: Undo lower pin nut.
5: Undo top nuts at tower.
6: pull out coilover.

This should take you about an hour. It is THAT easy.

changed the coilovers on the weekend, much easier than i expected. man its nice when the car doesnt bottom out on every bump, haha. took me 7 hrs total to do all 4 corners, pulling seats out, fiddling with height, damper etc.

[2LV8ETR]

Why did you pull out the seats? You can access the towers from the boot.

[NA_Goodness]

Not is 33s you can't, you gain access from under the parcel shelf, through the rear seats.

[2LV8ETR]

I remember doing James' GT-R stereo install and seeing the towers from inside the boot.

It can't surely be different in the Gts-25t?

[NA_Goodness]

I wouldnt have thought so, but I had to gain access through the rear seats of my NA. Never took the rears out of my GTSt

[landscribble]

i wasnt too fussed anyway if i could have got to the tops via the boot, found a whopping 10 cents under the seat.

[landscribble]

gonna try sell the old set of HKS hipermax coilovers. the 2 front ones seem ok, but the 2 rear ones are empty, springs and everything else look ok.

would anyone have a clue how much they'd be worth?

[2LV8ETR]

What do you mean by empty, of nitrogen?

[landscribble]

yeah sorry meant the gas inside them. when i press down hard on the tops of them, they take ages to slide back up.

[2LV8ETR]

You can have them refilled at any good suspension centre.

[landscribble]

ok ill ring around and get some quotes. but last i heard its a pain because they have to be sent over east and cost a fortune.. only reason i bought another set.