Rear coilover adjustment
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Rear coilover adjustment
After instaling a set of BC coilovers on my car and not doing my homework and realising the rears cant be adjusted for ride hight once theyre on the car im serriously pi**ed off.
i obviously dropped the control arms to get old springs out and new ones in but what a nightmare to do it all again. It means dropping the back boxes off there mounting to be able to get the bolts out the control arms because i didnt realise i was going to have to do it again and like a dick i put the bolts back in the same way. I ordered a internal spring compressor but its to big to get up through the hole in the control arm.
i have found a thread on mbw that disscuses this problem and gives an alternative way of compressing the spring has but the link has no pics anymore.
The internal spring compressor i have is not the mb one with the discs its the one with the 4 hooks.
i obviously dropped the control arms to get old springs out and new ones in but what a nightmare to do it all again. It means dropping the back boxes off there mounting to be able to get the bolts out the control arms because i didnt realise i was going to have to do it again and like a dick i put the bolts back in the same way. I ordered a internal spring compressor but its to big to get up through the hole in the control arm.
i have found a thread on mbw that disscuses this problem and gives an alternative way of compressing the spring has but the link has no pics anymore.
The internal spring compressor i have is not the mb one with the discs its the one with the 4 hooks.
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Yup, adjusting the rear ride height is a biatch. If that rear spring compressor lets go there go your fingers. Just come to grips with it and do it the long way.
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I noted how I adjust my rears in this thread. Still appears to have the picture of the compressor style you'll need.
https://mbworld.org/forums/c63-amg-w...ml#post7035129
https://mbworld.org/forums/c63-amg-w...ml#post7035129
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Why would you need spring compressors? Raise the car, put it on jack stands, put a jack underneath the control arm (with a hockey puck), remove inboard control arm bolt, lower jack, adjust, re-install.
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I noted how I adjust my rears in this thread. Still appears to have the picture of the compressor style you'll need.
https://mbworld.org/forums/c63-amg-w...ml#post7035129
https://mbworld.org/forums/c63-amg-w...ml#post7035129
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Sorted guys thanks. Thanks to tpete I did end up taking a leg off the spring compressor and threading it up inside before putting pin back in. A few winds and it was sorted. Now I just gotta fine tune and check if it rubs and mess about with the damping.
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so in other words to lower my rear side with my bc coil overs I have to , put a jack under the control arm to relive pressure. Then remove the control arm to subframe bolt and lower the jack. Correct? I'm saying because I believe I have the setting to Its lowest and the car still sits high, do I have to adjust the shock? For it to lower all the way
