Need help fast!!!!!
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Need help fast!!!!!
Hey guys I went to install my leveling kit yesterday and found out i have a broken coil spring on the drivers side. So i have my truck all tore apart in a buddy's driveway I called the auto parts store they said the stock replacement is a moog 81118 standard spring..They told me they would have it this morning. So i picked it up and went to finish the job and when i was trying to put the new spring on the strut i got it all together and i couldn't get my strut compressing tool out because the moog coil has 12 coils and the stock one only had 9 coils so the coils were a lot closer together on the new one when i got it compressed which then i couldn't get the tool out lol..so do I have the wrong coils or what im so confused. Or will the moogs work fine just a little different design any help would be greatly appreciated
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Joined: Sep 2010
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From: South Florida and NYC part time
ill do the same... get the one from the dealer... different number of coils will have a different attitude of the suspension in one side to the another which could make your car lean to one side or perform dangerously in a stop... if you are going to change brands/number of coils, change both sides. more coils, probably that one is stiffer.
