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Old 10-7-10, 0:50   #1 (permalink)
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tokico blue PROBLEM

so i put my tokicos on with Dropzone springs (never heard or found them anywhere online) so when im driving its a nice ride but when i turn to the left then the stering wheel comes back it well pull to the left hard as shizzle and if i go right it dose the same....

what could that be??... oh when i turn you can hear the spring binding up both ways...

i got the aliment done on all 4 tiers and they are good..

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Did you check your strut mounts/bearings while you were in there? Sounds like they're shot. Never ever replace struts or springs without checking strut mounts.

“One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that if you drive into London at 6am, half of the cars on the roads are Porsches and Astons. Whereas if you go in at ten to nine, they’re all Renaults. Simple solution, then. You want a nice car? Get up earlier and do more work.”

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ummm this sounds funny but where are the mounts??? do they ride like right on the spring? i will post the pics up on how i got them and put them in so you can see what it looks like

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this is the old struts off the car.... the pic is the top of the strut... front strut



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ok this is the new struts as you can see they are on the car... pic is the front strut...it looks to me there is no bearing there...



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I can see a bunch of potentially catastrophic problems...

Link me to the Dropzones you bought, i want to see something.

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bro like i said i don't know where they came from i got this from a junk yard with the struts.. they came off of a probe gt... i tried to find them and i could not find nothing if you can hook me up... i tried ebay/google/and other sits

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bro like i said i don't know where they came from i got this from a junk yard with the struts.. they came off of a probe gt... i tried to find them and i could not find nothing if you can hook me up... i tried ebay/google/and other sits
Are they springs or coilovers?

At the moment, it looks like you're missing your springs top hat, and probably bearings.

As in, too dangerous to drive. I'm surprised anyone aligned that thing.

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wow thats scary umm can i use the ones off of my old struts?? cuz i well... asp... and is there a trick on doing a camber set your self??... cuz if i do it i need to get the camber redone and that cost to much for the aliment... ya i put them on and did not now anything i thought that i could throw them on cuz i pulled them off of a car...

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bro i could not tell you what they where the struts can be adjusted if thats what you mean

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Drop zones are springs , these are tokico struts with Dropzone springs if that helps Concealer .

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Drop zones are springs , these are tokico struts with Dropzone springs if that helps Concealer .
Gotcha. Was wondering, because Dropzone makes coilovers as well.


Alright, here's the deal.

1) You need bearings installed at all times.
2) You need spring top hats installed at all times.


Take it all off again and pull whatever you need off the old struts, and put it back together. What you have there is EXTREMELY dangerous.

“One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that if you drive into London at 6am, half of the cars on the roads are Porsches and Astons. Whereas if you go in at ten to nine, they’re all Renaults. Simple solution, then. You want a nice car? Get up earlier and do more work.”

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ok bro thanks thats nice to know umm i well do it right away... what about the camber set how can i get passed that with out a aliment????

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ok so i been doing some research and found this..


http://www.cardomain.com/ride/214342...winnipeg-mb-ca


this is on a escort but i have the same set up... BUT my springs where not compresed like that... they do have that top piece im going to pull the back ones off to look at them cuz there is no camber so i can put them back on when im done and be good there

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ok so i been doing some research and found this..


http://www.cardomain.com/ride/214342...winnipeg-mb-ca


this is on a escort but i have the same set up... BUT my springs where not compresed like that... they do have that top piece im going to pull the back ones off to look at them cuz there is no camber so i can put them back on when im done and be good there
when you get to the sit scroll down and you well see them

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