Got everything installed this weekend. Don't try to do Bilstein struts yourself. Took forever, and I ended up having a shop put the strut together for me. They did both is 15 minutes, charged me $30. Wasn't worth the hassle. With the proper tools the shop had, it was just way easier and not worth messing with. Got her aligned yesterday, and she rides great now.

Took me about 6 1/2 hours to do the lift itself, once you take out all the extra steps I took due to my front end rebuild. You will want a second person to help if you are doing the lift on jack stands like I did.

I'm completely worn out, but saved a boatload of cash by doing everything myself.

 

so .. you have a spacer on top of your coilovers ? with the 5100’s in them ?

 

Not at the moment. Couldn't get the spring compressor to work for me. I may eventually take them to a shop and have the shop do it for me. The newer 5100's have a zero lift setting. I ended up picking up a set of standard replacement struts for the front.