Ripping out a strut

Dude take your car "sprut cartridges" and goodies to a shop where they know what they are doing before you get hurt. There is nothing nasty or hard about what you are doing, you are just doing it very very wrong.

i hope someone can help me out i have a 88 nissan maxima 6 cylinder. it runs fine on the street but as soon as it reaches 65mph on the highway it starts shaking like crazy up and down really bad .i decrease to 64 and it stops.other times i have pushed it to 80mph and nothing goes wrong it runs smooth im totally lost anyone help!???

i had the same problem on my 240sx. one of your shocks is more than likely completely blown. find out which one swap it out and you should be fine. :)

that or his tires are way out of balance which is a cheaper fix then a new strut..somethin to think about

wheel balance maybe

get your tires balanced 1st, if that doesnt fix it get new struts

What is he talking about? You take the spring compressors off before you ever put the strut back into the well.

i dont get it, the spring compressors don't have to go any where near the car. once you have the unit out then you compress, change over, release then re-install. is this guy making it sound harder than it is? or have i missed something?

if you dont know what you are doing dont do it. you remove the spring compressors before you put the strut/spring back in dude.

he has 2 compressors on the spring keeping it compressed so he can put the spring onto the new bilstein shock. problem is that with where hes put them on he cant get it back in, so he has to move the compressors. he cant take the ones that are on off as it will let the spring out. use a proper compressor instead of the cheap bolt job, u can always resell it on ebay :P