I just ordered my s-tech spings today!!! Does anyone have any tips or tricks for installing them? Thanks guys

 

Suspension tips/links in this thread: https://www.scionlife.com/forums/scion-tc-1g-suspension-handling-1615/suspension-faq-read-first-47974/

 

My only tip is to call some friends over and buy beer, lots of beer.

 

take your time and if you can have a friend to help, that help me.

 

Ditto on the friends stuff. Make a new thread in your regional forum to see if you can get a couple people to help. Chances are there are quite a few people around you who have done a few of them and would be willing to help without much persuasion.

 

rent a spring compressor from autozone.
makes things alot easier and safer.

 

pizza, beer and friends should do the trick and oh ya, take your time. Start early and go for as long as it takes. The first time I did springs it took me 8 hours (we did eat and drink...alot).

 

make sure you have a good brakerbar....that is pretty much the most vital tool though the whole install, and a impact gun its not necessary, but sure speeds things up.

 

get an impact wrench... it's the difference between 4 and 2 hours

 

I had an impact wrench and i guess my compressor was shhiitttty or the wrench was shiittty because it wouldn't break any bolts free.

So the breaker bar was my friend.

 

alright so beer, friends, food and a lot of partience is all I need, hahaha thanks everyone

 

and a breaker bar or air gun because the rears really were a pita... took us an hour to break both of the rear bolts. and use a decent spring compressor

 

they just came in yesterday, looking forward to spending hours to install them...

 

installing them today? post up the pics..

 

So after 7 long hours of labor and 3 broken rachets yesterday, I finally finished installing them. I'll post up pics after I get it washed because its all greasy! And thanks for your tips guys!

 

where did you order these from?

 

make sure you torque down all the bolts. you dont wanna drive that horse without those tightened down

 

Excited for the pictures.

 

I got them off erzperformance.com

 

195 shipped to san diego california from the bay area, i used my uncles rachets with a torque gauge so they are not comming off.