Yes it is a new coilover it’s roughed up cuz I been hitting it with a hammer and wd40 I tried that. It’s not seized car hasn’t left my garage yet. No the lock ring isn’t attached to the shock body it’s separate I would know I installed and turned them the correct way in the first place. Now I wanna lower the car more and yes ik I’m dumb for not knowing which direction the lock ring goes but what confuses me is that I was getting mixed information. Some people who own my car told me it’s one way that didn’t work and then I saw a YouTube video and it’s the other way.
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Hit it with an air chisel, I’ve never found a coilover mine couldn’t bust lose.(it’ll damage the ring aswell)
^ this is for coilovers that are actually stuck ^ personally I’d just disassemble it correctly because it clearly isn’t seized but 🤷♂️🤷♂️ you’re the one working on it, so u decide when it’s stuck for real
Why not just remove the whole coilover and mess with it without weight or tension on it? Could you shimmy it out between the a-arms even with it at full extension?
I’m not too familiar with this set, but is there a set screw to hold it in place? I have seen some coilovers where there is a tiny allen screw recessed in the cup to help hold in place.
Well if you saw a video of it actually moving the way you need it to, do it that way.
Just to clarify: The top collar is a single piece, right? You threaded the bottom collar on yourself? Is it possible it’s cross threaded? Do you have a breaker bar that you’ve used to give you more leverage? The other three coilovers are assembled and fine, you know what they’re supposed to look like, but this one is giving you trouble? Which way do those all go?
Simpler solution – crank them all the way down. That’s how it should be done anyhow.
that’s probably not a collar…. it’s probably part of the bottom sleeve that bolts to the car.
that’s how my Tein’s are… you need to take out the bottom mounting bolt and spin the entire bottom part up….
https://imgur.com/a/0p24GC5
Chisel and hammer then bottom collar loose.
deja vu. didnt everyone already tell you yesterday.
Did you try hitting the right side of the collar with a hammer and screw driver/punch to loosen it?
[https://youtu.be/L89s9neVybQ?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/L89s9neVybQ?feature=shared)
[https://youtu.be/VDOJdQKdLkY?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/VDOJdQKdLkY?feature=shared)
Look at the threads, they slant upward and to the right. It’s right hand thread so it needs to spin clockwise
To reiterate, if you took a hammer and chisel or a spanner wrench to you’ll be moving the parts toward the front of the car on the OUTER MOST part of the shock body
Might have to put a jack under it to take some of the pressure off. Might be the weight of the control arm and such causing stress against the threads and making it tight?
For collar rings it’s backwards.. righty loosy lefty tighty
If you still have the spanner wrench just use a cheetah pipe and push. Or like everyone else is saying.. hammer and Flathead screw driver
OP if i was in that predicament id use my punch/chisel and a small sledgehammer, if you cant get that loose you just don’t have adequate tooling and/or strength.
If that doesn’t work just use an air hammer with a somewhat blunt tip so you don’t sheer one of the teeth off of the collar, one hit of the trigger on an air hammer will break it loose.
You wanna be hitting on the tooth right above the D on GODSPEED cause you will have maximum space to get a proper swing on the hammer.