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.

[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-