yeah I already got the email and them being shipped.. Prob gonna install saturday

 

What exactly is the difference when installing new struts? Different ride height? smoother ride?

 

the struts wear out fast on the older gen 3's and it results in A LOT of bounce from the front end (just like a car with bad shocks). New struts stiffen up the front and provide much better handling. A lot of guys also take the opportunity to install a leveling kit when they have the struts out so thats the only way you can get a different ride height, the struts themselves do not add height, just better handling. I personally will not install a leveling kit because I have read on here that it can cause pre-mature wear on things because it changes the angles of the tie rods, cv-joints, etc. I lowered the back of mine instead to get rid of the rake.

 

who you going to get to install them? curious as to how much your gonna pay.....

 

I'm actually gonna do it myself. atleadt pulling the struts out and putting them back in, I may run up to a mechanic friend of the family to get him to compress and swap the springs.

 

you got lucky....most of the time it's a PIA.....with seized or broken bolts on the strut tower. I might try to take mine off myself then...

 

Yeahi have had them out before...its not a fun task but neither is dropping like 500 dollars to have someone else do it

 

true that brother.

 

I paid 187 for the fronts and 87 for the rears which I think is a pretty good price. Thats from 4wheelparts.com they had 20% discount on the entire site, so with my savings I bought the levelling kit

 

Hopefully he has a wall mounted spring compressor. I tried installing my TM kit with the spring compressors you can borrow from Napa, they wouldn't fit into the springs except near the middle and then they didn't compress nearly enough. Compressors from the other auto parts stores were the same story. Our front suspension isn't horribly complex to work on but it can definitely be a pain in the rear. I know some guys seemed to have a lot of trouble with the lower shock bolt, make sure to hit that with a bunch of PB Blaster the night before so it has time to soak in.