Help me solve the mystery of the rear spring install
 

I'd like to finally get down to the solution for the installation of a lowering spring on the rear of our cars. I have read that the service manual says that the spring can be replaced without the lower control arm being removed. Is this true?

Can anyone say that they have done a swap this way? I don't have a service manual or link to it either. I just want to make the lowering process as easy as possible for the rears.

EDITTED: 3/31/09

not true.

it cant be done. how hard is that.

google. or check the diy section here.

beers :beer:

I want some of what your smoking :smoker:

Are you saying that you have read somebody else's account of what the FSM indicates or that you read the FSM, yourself, and this is what you are understanding it to say?

The fact is that the entire damper assembly needs to be removed from the car in order to swap springs out but the factory damper, itself, does not necessarily need to be replaced in the process. Most people hold the opinion that the factory dampers go bad around 50K miles but I am not so sure about that, myself.

This is one of those cases where "if it sounds too good to be true it probably is"...

^O Rly?

I just realized where I FAIL'd. I said strut when I meant to have said Lower Control Arm.

So I'll ask again...

Can the rear spring be replaced without removing the lower control arm? I'm trying to see if I can get around taking out the alignment bolt, unneccessarily.