ome suspension

[Nullifier]

So last night I went down to my friends 4X shop to pick up my front suspension. and assenble my coil overs. I used their pneumatic spring compressor so the disassembly was quick. After about an hour and ahalf of trying to reassemble it, I had to call in some back up on the phone. I was stumped because the spring compressor couldn't compress the 882 coils enough to get the top nut on the shock. It was about 1/4" shy. Scott thankfully called me back and suggested flipping the spring up side down and inserting a long bolt through the shock mount eye and letting the compressor grab onto it. This would make the throw of the compressor shorter and hopefully add some power. Unfortunetly no luck.

I started to laugh and said well maybe I'll have to go to a real 4x shop like pep boys. No one thought it was funny but me. I guess you had to be there LOL.

Any way I am taking them over to another shop today and using there compressor . Hopefuly this one will have enough *** to get it done. Those freaking 882's are strong little guys.

[cruiseroutfit]

Don't worry about a compressor IMHO

Undo the sway bar link (at lower A-Arm)
Undo the bottom ball joint (either the castle nut or 4 bolts)
Step on the lower A-arm, pushing it towards the ground, insert the coilover setup into the upper coil bucket, lift it up enough to get the bottom strut bolt on (while stepping on the lower a-arm) and then jack the a-arm up, it will compress the coil. Make sure to line up the strut shaft as it enters the mount. Reattach the ball joint & sway bar... done. ~30 mins per side

[Jonathan Hanson]

Kurt, I've got to try that trick sometime!

We've got 881 springs and N91S shocks on the front of Roseann's Tacoma, with an ARB bumper and Warn 8000 winch mounted, but no cable yet. I think the front is plenty stiff with this combination; in fact I'm going to put standard steel cable on the winch to add some more weight up there. Overall the package is well-controlled and I have no doubt will prove durable. Where OME can't match the expensive coilovers is in smoothing out small bumps - Scott's Tacoma floats over stuff ours jiggles on. But I never get the feeling ours is close to bottoming out when we, uh, need to get to town real quick. It rides better when you're going about 7/10ths.

[Nullifier]

Don't worry about a compressor IMHO

Undo the sway bar link (at lower A-Arm)
Undo the bottom ball joint (either the castle nut or 4 bolts)
Step on the lower A-arm, pushing it towards the ground, insert the coilover setup into the upper coil bucket, lift it up enough to get the bottom strut bolt on (while stepping on the lower a-arm) and then jack the a-arm up, it will compress the coil. Make sure to line up the strut shaft as it enters the mount. Reattach the ball joint & sway bar... done. ~30 mins per side

Thanks for the tip that is how we installed the 1" spacer that is in the old assembly.