[DIY] Removal & Refitting front Springs

**sid** · 21-03-2008 02:30 PM

DISCLAIMER: The following information is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and should only be used as a reference. If you

do not have the skills required for such a task, please take your car to a professional. Neither myself or OzHonda

take responsibility for your actions and carry out these actions at your own risk.

Aim: To replace front springs
Tools and parts: Hammer, ratchet, 10mm 12mm 14mm 17mm spanner, beer, jack stands, jack, and a lot of

swearing, spring compressor, patience and maybe some other little stuff.
Steps: have about 22 pics or so
Additional information: SAFETY FIRST! & Good to have a mate to be there to help if anything goes wrong.

THIS IS BEING PERFORMED ON MY ED9 '89 CRX
and also i don't know specific names on the parts but just trying my best

Pop the hood and locate the upper mounting bolts & nuts n stuf

Use an allen key (don't know what size but i found one that exactly fit, from the shed) and spanner thing to loosen

up the spindle nut on the shocks. Just a couple turns will do fine. DO NOT UNDO IT ALL THE WAY!

Then move on to the nuts on the side and just loosen those up a bit too, but do not take it all the way off.

Jack the car up and support it on stands.

**sid** · 21-03-2008 02:31 PM

DISCLAIMER: The following information is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and should only be used as a reference. If you

do not have the skills required for such a task, please take your car to a professional. Neither myself or OzHonda

take responsibility for your actions and carry out these actions at your own risk.

Undo the road wheel lug nuts

Pop the wheel off and this is what you should see

If you go round to the inside and take a look there's a bolt that's holding in the brake line to the shocks. Remove

that & be sure that the brake line is free from shock.

There's a bolt where the bottom of the shock meets the forks? Loosen that up a bit, don't take it off just yet.

In this pic, you can see where my pinkie is pointing to show you where the next nut is, to remove. take that all the

way off. the long bold that it's screwed in to is sorta hard to take off. This is where I used a hammer and a piece

of metal to hit on the bolt to pop it out of the other end. This can take some time, just be patient and remember,

SAFETY FIRST!!
Once you manage to take the bolt out, proceed to take out the nut, from the previous pic, off.

**sid** · 21-03-2008 02:32 PM

DISCLAIMER: The following information is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and should only be used as a reference. If you

do not have the skills required for such a task, please take your car to a professional. Neither myself or OzHonda

take responsibility for your actions and carry out these actions at your own risk.

Back on top of the car, take off the nuts that hold up the shock to the car.
you have to fiddle about to take the shocks out.
Once it's out..

Spring compressor goes on.

Spring compressors come in a pack of 2. Clamp both sides evenly.

Still compressing the springs. make sure they're on nice and snuggly cause the last thing you want is to have the

springs decompress and break your jaw. In this pic also, have taken out the shocks out already and disassembled it.

King Springs vs stock springs

Had to compress the King Springs when I put it back on, this also aided in assembling the shock back together.

Pop the shock back in to place.

**sid** · 21-03-2008 02:34 PM

DISCLAIMER: The following information is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and should only be used as a reference. If you

do not have the skills required for such a task, please take your car to a professional. Neither myself or OzHonda

take responsibility for your actions and carry out these actions at your own risk.

Put the nuts back on, finger tight.

Screw the brake line back on to the shock

This bit was tricky. Pretty much the way you take it out, you put it back in.

Popped the lower bolt back in to it's place. This part too can take a while but don't stress! you'll eventually get

it lol

Using the car jack helped

Tighten the bolt that connects the bottom end of the shock to the fork.

Tighten the bolts on the side of the shock to the chassis then tighten the spindle nut.

**sid** · 21-03-2008 02:35 PM

DISCLAIMER: The following information is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and should only be used as a reference. If you

do not have the skills required for such a task, please take your car to a professional. Neither myself or OzHonda

take responsibility for your actions and carry out these actions at your own risk.

Putting things back to it's original place.

Put the roadwheel back on.

And that's pretty much done. When screwing nuts/bolts back in to place, refer to the cars user manual or some

reference where you're able to find out how much to turn it to the specified torque.

This is what my other spring looked like.. I didn't break it.. it was already broken.. while it was on..

Old springs together

going to do another DIY on the rears, in the near future.

Regards,

Sid

**teaseR** · 21-03-2008 03:03 PM

good write up but it looks like u need first aid!

**sid** · 21-03-2008 03:17 PM

had a cut on my finger from a while ago. tissue paper and sticky take just helped made the finger stronger, was not cause of the spring change

**SiReal** · 21-03-2008 05:37 PM

ive never seen a stock spring break but i guess if its 20 years old, u can never know.

good stuff nonetheless - trying stuff out by yourself.

I found the most time consumer part in the several installs was the spring compressor.

**EK1.6LCIV** · 08-04-2008 12:59 PM

excellent write up! This has come in handy thanks

**jdm_b16a** · 30-11-2008 05:54 PM

I've never had to resort to using spring compressors when installing/removing springs, either stock or aftermarket. Maybe I've been lucky!

Also can't believe you did this procedure using the OEM scissor jack. Whilst it obviously worked I only ever use a garage jack and jack stands.

Peter