22mm I believe. the big ones right?

 

Yep, thanks for the info. I tracked it down recently. I had to use a 7/8" and it was just a fraction too big and didn't want to strip the bolt down doing it later. On a side note, only ONE of the impact socket sets I found had a 22mm, the rest skipped that one. It's also a pita to find a 22mm of any drive around here. It's even skipped in my brother in law's Crescent tool set. What's the deal with that? Anywho, thanks again shupes.

 

Great post but why can I not see the pictures?

 

just started doing this. I wish my car was as rust free as in the pics. makes me jealous. I had to go out and buy a half inch socket set just to fit my 3 foot wrench to get some of these bolts off. and i can't imagine compressing the springs with-out an impact wrench. God bless who ever didn't use an impact wrench

 

HAha yeah I did mine without an impact wrench. Compressing the springs manually was such a nice workout.

 

A good workout every time! I'm looking forward to doing it again to come off s-techs onto something a bit more performance oriented.

 

how long can i go with h-techs if im runnin with a sotck trut? i got 64K already on stock suspension in a daily driver

 

12

 

So my s-tech came in today and I want to bring it to a place to have them installed but i dont trust them in taking apart the inside of the car. Should i take out all the back so they are in the clear and can just install? Idk i just feel like they wont put it all back together the way it should be. What do you think?

 

good write up, how low is the drop that the tein springs give, it seem the drop is not a lot

 

Tein Rates these springs at:

-2.4"F -2.0" Rear for S techs. -1.9"F -1.5"R for H techs.

Htech is -0.9"F and -1.2"R for the 2011+ TC.

We have these springs in stock as well =]

 

Do you need a camber kit and will these springs eventually blow out the shocks?

 

You don't necessarily need a camber kit. For the TC1 at least, the rear camber is adjustable and a shop can adjust it to a degree.

Your shocks will eventually blow even with the OEM springs in a very long time also depending on how you drive. However with decent lowering springs, the OEM struts usually last pretty long. We have seen customers with TRD springs on OE shocks last over 100K miles with no problems being daily driven.

 

I'm installing my S Techs next weekend, & this is going to help me out a lot. I was wondering though, is there anyway to enlarge the pictures?! When I click them, they are still very small.

 

Nice write up. I used this for my s-techs

 

Used this to put on my Hotchkis Lowering Springs. Little different, but still the same process. Thanks for this!