Front Struts: 90 Lumina, bottom spring seats rusted out.

[LUMINATOR]

The bottom spring seats are getting pretty rusty and falling apart on my car. Just looking for a few pointers on how to replace them! Thank you.

[intern8tion9l]

I had to do mine, they were terrible. I had the whole strut/ knuckle assembly off the car. I suspect you can probably do them without removing the knuckle though

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Thanks for getting back to me intern8tion9l! They don't look like any fun at all...  I might check the junkyard out and see if I can get the whole knuckle and strut assembly that isn't to rusty and just swap them out!

[55trucker]

^ Trouble with that approach is you don't know what you're getting in the way of a strut cartridge, used is used, you can look for another strut but you may very well still have to replace the cartridge, the spring seat is a replaceable item,

 

so where is your money best spent?

 

 

But if you don't have the tools to do the work then you're looking at a shop charging you to do the job.

[intern8tion9l]

As usual, the parts are the cheapest element of the job if you're looking at having it done. If you can borrow spring compressors and a strut tool, you can bang this out in an afternoon

[intern8tion9l]

Mine looked like this

 

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55trucker Yeah I understand what your saying there! Never know what your going to be getting... I might just replace the strut cartridges  and spring seats, I really don't want to haha its basically just a get me to work car *beater car* if you know what I mean! Would an auto parts store have the tool for the strut cartridges intern8tion9l? Probably should do the rears to while I have all the tools out! That jobs a lot easier. Replaced the right rear strut when I got the car but i think its going out again!