I am trying to adjust my front coil overs. Did the passenger side. Jacked up on frame, loosened bolt on collar, adjusted no prob. Doing same on passenger side, loosened collar and the whole coil over assembly is turning together, so not ajusting. Any ideas?

thanks

tim

You need the coil over tool, as the two pieces are locked together. You gotta unlock 'em. There's a cheeaper one that I can't recall the name of right now, but the longacre one is here:

http://www.racerpartswholesale.com/long51.htm

Get two of them and turn in opposite directions to unlock.

That or I don't understand your question correctly. But I think that's what you need.

Jason

Thanks for your response...I know I wasn't so clear as I am not up on the terminology for these parts. I already have the coil over wrench, but when I turn the collar that adjusts the height, the whole coil over turns with it. So somehow I need to hold the coil over and break the collar loose. This is the part I am not sure how to do , and don't want to damage by using one of my shade tree techniques!

I take it the wheels are off and the car is on jackstands? If so I would try jacking up the lower A-arm a bit. This should compress the spring a little which hopefully will keep it from rotating.

Good Luck

Use 'em! You won't hurt anything. I can usually keep the collar from spinning with my hand but it doesn't take much of a grip with a big slip-joint pliers. Just grab it down out of the way of any threads you may be using in the future.

That's a spanner. But, ground controls don't use two locking collars like Global West stuff does, so a second spanner won't help.

The coil-over sleeve is turning on the shock. The ideas of loading the lower control arm and using something to hold the sleeve from turning are both good. I'd use a rubber strap wrench instead of channel-lock pliers to hold the sleeve though. The sleeve doesn't get marred and you have a better grip too. I *have* used big pliers, but a strap wrench is easier to control/less messy IMHO, YMMV.

Strap wrench--great idea, Sam!