Emmy Award winning mechanic Scotty Kilmer shows how you can change out the suspension struts in your car. Scotty brings you 42 years of mechanic experience o…
Emmy Award winning mechanic Scotty Kilmer shows how you can change out the suspension struts in your car. Scotty brings you 42 years of mechanic experience o…
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How To Replace Struts In Your Car.
my rear bounces like crazy when I drive. is this an easy fix? just the
struts? wish i had a friend like you in real life !
i have a 1988 pontiac firebird v6 2.8 liter engine is the strut assembly
just as easy to replace as in this video since its a rear wheel drive car?
My kyb front passenger strut is new (1 month old). Recently i hit a pot
hole and now the car hits bumps hard but it sounds and feels like it only
comes from front passenger side. What could this be?
thanks Scotty, i had to do them on my wife’s 99 crv, i was able to yank the
wishbone off the bottom of the strut on the car and only had to take the
wheel off, it was a little tight tho, also used a quick struts so i didn’t
get a spring to the face.(her spring was broken) i was smart tho and stayed
in the garage and had a cold beer with the time i saved because of your
video……thanks man
After i repaced my strut and strut mount on the left side had a
creacking/squeaking sound. What seems yhe problem?
Anyone know how to go about lowering a car should i buy new springs or cut
maybe and inch off of them ?
Scotty you are so much active soo much of energy. Every veins you have are
pumped with fire. I learn a lot from your videos. Thumbs up Scotty !
Hey Scotty I replaced my strut about a month ago. a week ago I hit a very
small break in the road (same feeling as hitting a small pothole) with my
front passenger side tire. Now I can feel every bump on the road on that
left tire. It’s like all bumps on the road aern’t absorbed like they use to
before I hit that bump on the road. Now the car hits bumps kinda hard with
force on that tire. There is also a very small vibration in the steering
wheel, so small that you can visually see the steering wheel shake but you
feel it when driving and I never noticed it before my incident with the
bump. The car also makes a low humming sound that sounds like its coming
from that same tire only at very low speeds (0-20mph). When I accelerate at
a faster speed it goes away. If the car is moving with its own momentum at
a low speed without my foot on the gas I also hear this low hum. I checked
the wheel for any play and it feels solid. I checked the control arm and
any suspension part near the wheel and there is also no play. I checked the
strut bolts to see if they needed tightening and they are still torqued to
cars specs and tight. I pressed against the front passenger side of the car
to see if it would bounce but it returns to position like the drivers side.
What am I missing?
Thanks for all these tips, I subscribed!!
Hey thanks for sharing your videos, they’re awesome! My BREAK lights are on
when I turn my car on, so how do I fix this problem.
awsome!
Hey Scotty, would you also recommend Monroe Sensa-Trac?
scotty would welcome prayer, how to replace a volvo 850 1994 2.5 125 kw
rear axle (subframe) bushings and they look like two holes 8 only one hole
is larger and the other smaller and in the middle of a press similar to the
rubber cover, please make a video. thanking the fans for the Estonian
andres.k
well, replace them then, if you don’t want to mess with removing springs on
struts, they do sell ones with springs installed, though they cost more
they can bounce too much, or cause weird tire wear, or handle poorly on
higher speed cornering
my mazda needs new rear struts. do you have a video on replacing rear ones?
I had an Audi 5000, to replace the cartridge, don’t need to remove the
struts. Cartridge came out on the top of the strut still in the car. Needed
a special tool, though. $90! Also the heater core can be removed through
the engine compartment in one assembly, easy. Done it. German engineering!
Hi. How I can replace the sway bar links on a chrysler sebring ?
I don’t like em myself, I like KYB much better.
I don’t drink anything with caffeine in it, I’m naturally this way.If you
like my car help, be sure to watch my live car talk show every saturday
morning at 10 AM CST on google events. I answer your car questions LIVE
there. Just go to my scotty kilmer channel on youtube saturday morning at
10, and click on the google plus icon on the top right corner. That takes
you to the event. You do have to be a member of google plus to ask
questions, so join up, it’s all Free.
After changing struts, is an alignment needed?
;push on the shocks, if they don’t bounce much, they are fine. If you like
my car help, be sure to watch my live car talk show every saturday morning
at 10 AM CST on google events. Just go to my scotty kilmer channel on
youtube saturday morning at 10, and click on the google plus icon on the
top right corner. That takes you to the event where you can ask me
questions Live. You do have to be a member of google plus, but that’s free
and you can just google “join google plus” for that. thanks,
na, they should all be the same size.
wow what brand is any good anymore? It’s been almost 30 years since I
replaced shocks on my 67 Impala with the Monroematics. Other cars I’ve
owned since either didn’t need shocks/struts in the time I owned them or
I’ve had a shop do it for around $400 both sides but that was 18 years or
so ago.
Scotty, Your video’s have helped me do a lot of self repair on my aging
car. Thank you for these. However, I am now stumped. I have a knocking in
my front suspension from my ’06 mazda 3. I have checked all the components
and it all seems to be solid. I did notice a little bit of play in the half
shaft, so that may need some work, but I don’t feel like that is the
problem. The knocking only rears its ugly head at low speeds. What else
should I be checking that could cause these noises?
yes, they can, and espeically worn strut mounts will do that
What do you think of complete strut assemblys like at Autozone? Is it worth
the time saved by not having to disassemble the old strut and changing the
individual strut cartridge, bearing, isolators etc?
scotty-KYB or MONROE struts?
If you wish to ask me car questions, I am switching my questions and
answers to my google+ community “Auto Repair With Scotty Kilmer”. So
please, if you want your questions answered, go to the google+ community
and type my community name in the search and join, it’s free. Once joined,
you can ask questions right there.
Grats on the emmy
they are OK, but nothing special. KYBs are much better. If you like my car
help, be sure to watch my live car talk show every saturday morning at 10
AM CST on google events. I answer your car questions LIVE there. Just go to
my scotty kilmer channel on youtube saturday morning at 10, and click on
the google plus icon on the top right corner. That takes you to the event.
You do have to be a member of google plus to ask questions, so join up,
it’s all Free.
ur the man scotty!!!!
Mr. Kilmer what coil compressor tool are you using in the video? Where can
I get one? i found a few on ebay, but I am unsure of their quality.
replace the bent tie rod first and pray it’s just that .
just cheapies from auto zone. I have a 1000 dollar set up, but I rarely use
it as it’s a pain in the ass to set up
yea, work slow and make sure you put the safety latches on before you start
tightening up the nuts to compress the spring. I assume you are doing it by
hand which is much safer. It’s the air gun work that gets dangerous as they
go pretty fast.
Scotty, did you also replace the other steering components you had to
remove to get the strut out or reuse them ?
why u make it look so easy
Woah Scotty made it look easy without breaking a sweat! Keep up the good
work mate!
auto zone, harbor freight tools.
Thanks!