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      04-26-2009, 01:52 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by McReary View Post
Are you serious?! We did that and tried every which way to get it out of the strut. We still couldn't clear it by 1''. Maybe its cuz we have different tailored struts for the 128. Either way, I stepped on it with my entire body weight 160lbs and more, compressed the springs to 4 rings, preloaded with jacking it up. There just wasn't enough room for us by just removing the bolts of that e90 guide...
yes im serious.. trust me i thought the same thing when i did mine, theres nothing special about the 128 struts either they will come out the same way. just push down as far as possible with your foot on it, and tilt in towards the door basically it will need to clear the 1 inch of bolts coming out of the top of the mount right? you need to push down and twist the top mount so that 1 bolt is now cleared. keep pushing with your foot and rotate is again to get 2 bolts to clear. then same for the last one
dunno if that made sense but i tried haha
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