6G Celicas Forums

Hi All,

am having currently a huge problem installing front dampers Kayaba ExcelG on my Celica 2.0 GT ('96). I have bought all 4 dampers, 2 rears and 2 fronts of course. Rear ones looked different though, they had this whole assembly, where the front ones came as "sticks" only.

Here a pic from Kayaba page and it's exactly as on the page, front came without assembly:
http://www.kayaba.de/images/products/art/prod_excel.jpg

Here my rears: http://www.toyotateam.sk/upload/CelicaNR/tlmic_predny.jpg
And here fronts: http://www.toyotateam.sk/upload/CelicaNR/tlmic_zadny.jpg

The problem is, my mechanic can't put the fronts into the former assembly. He says it doesn't fit. Why in the hell then Kayaba would sell these dampers for Celicas ? Mechanic claims the damper cover is too thick to fit into the assembly.

Did you guys have any problems with exchanging front dampers ?

Are the original dampers incorporated into the assembly only (and so not interchangable) ????

PLS help..

Thanks for any advice..