Damnit, the perches on my coilovers are seized, any advice?
 

I picked up some H&R coilovers off an acquaintance of mine a week ago. I don't think he ever adjusted the height on these things, because the rear perches are seized at the very ------- top of the damper. I tried hella ---- today... PB Blaster, hammer & screw driver, using a pipe wrench (the perch was turning, slowly, but was also bending the bottom part because I couldn't get any leverage). Does anyone have any ideas, or know of some place that I could take these that would un-seize them? The suspension is great, but I can't roll at the height that it's stuck at (at the very top of the threads on the damper), way to high for the cool kids. It's been ------- frustrating trying to get anywhere with this ----, I pretty much wasted an afternoon of nice weather (about time Seattle, damnit) thinking my car would be slammed... >:(

Re: Damnit, the perches on my coilovers are seized, any advice?
 

Your best bet is to call H&R and see if they will send you new perches and just cut those off. Most of the good suspension companies will send ---- like that out for free.

Re: Damnit, the perches on my coilovers are seized, any advice?
 

or heat..

Re: Damnit, the perches on my coilovers are seized, any advice?
 

my hr coilovers were just siezed had to go to a shot and heat them up with a torch and then use a chizel and a hammer

Re: Damnit, the perches on my coilovers are seized, any advice?
 

same thing happened with some tein's my friend has. we had to put them in a vice and hammer them with a chisel to break them loose.

Re: Damnit, the perches on my coilovers are seized, any advice?
 

...or you could take them to the H&R wharehouse in Bellingham and throw it through their window :)

Re: Damnit, the perches on my coilovers are seized, any advice?
 

LOL :D

Re: Damnit, the perches on my coilovers are seized, any advice?
 

same thing happened to the right rear coilover on my GTI, i mounted it to the car, soaked teh fucker in PB Blaster for a while. then i tried to work the pearch in either direction...got it to go down (wanted to go up) soaked it again in PB and slowly worked my way up past the shitty part... thing was packed with dirt in that area i think..it was a bitch...