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Rear springs elite and broken middle section exhaust studs
grifter:
Elite 3.2
Got a broken rear spring and in the process of removing them I noticed an ident LA on each spring. Had a look through the forum and it looks like the LA identifer is a mystery that VX does not seem to have a part no for. Before I started removing them I thought the ident would be long gone so ordered a set of KYB that I've seen mentioned on here. Are the KYBs ok for the elite now that I think on it.
Springs still look pretty good nick, well apart from the broken one, the coils are still relatively black with little rust.
One of the centre sections and the back box is toast so I removed them but the 4 bolts between cats and centre section have all snapped. I don't see any other way to remove the studs but remove the cats and to get more access, tried some heat and no joy.
To remove the each cat is it the 2 plugs for sensors and the 2 upper bolts to remove from manifold? Any other little sneaky things hiding waiting to take the skin off my knuckles?
Cheers
Andy
TheBoy:
Does it still have SL?
The snapped studs - drill them out and use nuts and bolts. Needs decent drill bits, not the 10,000 bits for 50p egay shite.
johnnydog:
Facelift saloon self levelling springs with ident LA are GM part no. 90295666
ronnyd:
If you have time, get yourself some good TiN coated drill bits. Far tougher that ordinary HSS bits.
grifter:
--- Quote from: TheBoy on 28 April 2024, 15:36:51 ---Does it still have SL?
The snapped studs - drill them out and use nuts and bolts. Needs decent drill bits, not the 10,000 bits for 50p egay shite.
--- End quote ---
I take it you mean self levelling? The compressor runs sometimes but I don't think it's doing much if anything. There is a pipe going to the back shocks but they aren't actually connected into anything so I'm assuming it's now defunct.
Need to get a set of drill bits as I looked at the manifold and there is no way I'm attempting to take all that out with the car 1 inch above my nose, and also risk snapping more studs.
Any recommendations for good set of drills don't want to buy chinese stuff?
Cheers
Andy
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