Strut sitting weird, Sittin at an angle. some pics. Options

[sugarfree]

its a 96GT. The strut is sitting weird on the driver side. Sits at like an angle. The cars not lowerd, i do have some camber correctional bolts from the past because the car was lowerd. Could this the problem, im not sure becuase the passenger side is fine with the camber correction bolts. Can anyone take a guess what the problem is or what needs to be replaced. Im getting new tires and an aligment tomarrow also.


Driver side

Passenger side.

[LewFX]

doesnt look like its been installed correctly. take it out and make sure strut isnt blown, the bearing is ok, the spacer is there,it should be seated perfectly centered

[sugarfree]

I was trying to avoid that, but i guess i will. I didnt want to rent some spring compressors. The strut is ok, not blown. About it sitting properly, ill have to take a look.
Thanks.

This post has been edited by sugarfree: Mar 24, 2006 - 5:11 PM

[spke719]

ok look dont take it apart....just turn the top. you got it in the wrong way it has to set in the exact way u took it out. you should have marked it some where. did u do that????? just take off the top 3 bolts and spin the top untill its the way it should be there is only 2 other ways for it to go.

[LewFX]

i learned that white out is a great marking tool when aligning stuff. mark the top of the triangle, its suppose to face you when installing.

[sugarfree]

Ill try that turning thing before takin it apart. I see what you mean and how it could fix it though.
Thanks.

[CelicaQT]

Hey Sugarfree, I had this same problem about 2 months ago. I thought it was a blown shock, but it wasn't. My friend took a look at it and we took the whole strut assembly out. There was no sign of bearing damage or a blown shock.

When you look at both bolts, is the one that's not centered not flush to the strut opening? Meaning is that bold sticking out of that tower? The one that's centered should be flush.

The bolt just wasn't tightened enough causing the bolt to just turn when we tried to tighten it prior to removal. So all we did was just take out the assembly and retightend it and when we put it back on the bolt was recentered. No spring compressors needed.

Hope this helps.

-Christee-

[LewFX]

sorry to be off topic, i used to live near sterling heights, i rarely saw any celicas

[sugarfree]

ok look dont take it apart....just turn the top. you got it in the wrong way it has to set in the exact way u took it out. you should have marked it some where. did u do that????? just take off the top 3 bolts and spin the top untill its the way it should be there is only 2 other ways for it to go.

Thank you very much this DID work, and i really thank you lots.
Thank you for your input chirstee, but i had already fixed it by the time i came back to this topic. Thanks everyone else as well.
Kam.

[LewFX]

i hope you fixed it before you took it for your alignment.

[sugarfree]

Yea i did, im doing that today, this repair only took me abut 15mins.

[spke719]

no problem buddy.