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Old 12-09-2007, 02:02 PM   #4 (permalink)
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  • Depending on whether the gland nuts in your strut bodies are rusted or not you might need a hefty bench vice with a pry bar that can fit through the camber bolt holes in the strut bodies. Those things'll fight ya like a son of a bitch.
  • Hand tools of course.
  • Floor jack
  • Jack stands
  • Brake fluid & tools to bleed (Unless you cut the tabs on the strut bodies that hold the brake lines)
  • Torque wrench (It's very very easy to get the torque on the strut tops wrong. It's much lighter than you think.)
  • PB Blaster (spray everything you might have to turn before starting paying particular attention to the sway bar end-links)
  • Have you inspected your swaybar end-links yet? Are the boots in good shape? If not, you will need new end links. I believe the allen wrench you need to get those cursed nuts off is 5mm but it's been a while so I might be wrong. I've done suspension swaps on 3 MR2s so far and I've had to cut about 4 of 12 swaybar end links loose with a die grinder.

That's all I can think of right now. Hope that makes sense, I just woke up a few minutes ago
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