Hello all,

I am new to the site, hope you can help me.

I have bought a TT recently with a few problems which I new of when I bought it, Hoping I can fix them myself.

One of the rear springs is broken (The small coil), I have bought a new one, can anyone give me advise on how to change it.

 

Jack the rear up and put on jackstands. Jack up under the rear strut, unbolt it and then lower the arm down and the strut should come free.

 

This would be reason to justify some H&R's to my wife and a new set of Shocks. LOL! This should be pretty easy. I suggest trying to get shop manual if you are going to do your own work on your car. Worth their weight in gold and usually cost about that too. LOL!

 

DIY here:

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cheers

 

Thank you very much,

I changed it, it wasn't hard at all.

Managed to do it with out spring compressors as well =D

 

Well since the car puts tension on the spring and not a separate nut/plate, you dont need one. Only time you need one is if you disassemble the fronts to reuse something (which you really never needed to do).

 

Any suggestions for just changing the springs?

Swaybar connection off, check. Top or bottom shock (to gain downward movement freedom)?
Top or bottom trailing arm (if shock needs to be disconnected, would make sense to do bottom (shock and trailing arm one bolt).

Last time I had a very hard time creating enough space to get the spring out/in.

Best to have BOTH sides on jacks (and off the ground)? Or one at a time?

BTW: link above refers to a "foot wrench" to press the brake rotor down. Googled the term, but couldn't find anything useful. How does a foot wrench look like?