Brian P Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 1.5 hours of work later and I have new rear Sensatracs in with new boots/jounce bumper and I took apart and cleaned up the brakes while I was there. (also found an upper mount about to take a shit. GOOD TO HAVE SPARES IN STORAGE) I don't care what anyone says, or what they do that makes it so hard for them. These cars are one of the easiest to change struts on, front OR rear. The greatest thing about these struts is they handle rough roads as smooth as stock, yet contribute to better handling, and after driving for 5 miles, the ass end settled back down to STOCK ride height, which was great on this car. Now just need another 15 minutes to do the fronts and It'll be like new again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94CutlassSLCoupe Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 I thought they were pretty easy to change....although on my sister's we did have one of the mount bolts break off so of course that took some time to take care of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1138 Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 How much did you spend on it total? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuminaMan93 Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 I have the sensatracs in the rear and like the way they handle. I'm going to do the fronts either this weekend or next, isn't there a special tool i need to do the fronts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian P Posted June 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 How much did you spend on it total? Well the struts list $63 a piece, minus my discount, then the boot kit/jounce bumpers I had bought a couple years ago but never used. So all in all practically nothing. What sucks is I used my POS Coleman impact gun during the job, but today I just bought a 600 lb/ft reverse torque IR gun. Would have made the job go that much quicker, but no biggie. If it wasn't for the impact gun though, I probably wouldn't have been able to get the upper mount off the old struts. A T-50 torx bit is not enough to hold the strut shaft to turn that huge 24mm nut. Grab the shaft with vise grips and zip the nut off (don't care about messing up the shaft. dead struts anyway) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1138 Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Would it be possible without air tools? I definitely won't have that luxury. It's going to be a daylong driveway thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian P Posted June 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 I did the most of the left side pretty w/o the air tools since it was late, didn't want to wake anyone up (attached garage) just have 1/2" drive sockets and a nice long breaker bar. As for the top mount bolt I don't really know. Maybe you can do it by clamping the strut shaft with vise grips or in a bench vise. Push comes to shove just put new mounts on the new struts, since they love to rust and bust apart anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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