Fit Rear Shocks

[66yostagea]

The rears in the Green R30 are stuffed. Checking out on best way to R&R.

In the workshop manual the first thing it says to do is, "remove rear seat assembly". Do you have to take the seat out to get the parcel shelf out? The shelf in Goldie is very brittle and broken. Greenies shelf is intact and I dont want to risk breaking it.

Any advice will be greatlly appreciated.

Edited August 16, 2009 by 66yostagea

[jrh001]

Hi,

There's a very helpful post (with pictures) here: http://forum.r31skylineclub.com/index.php?topic=133876.0 The rear seat sits against the edge of the shelf. I'd say there's much less chance of damaging the shelf if the seat is removed first.

JH

Edited August 17, 2009 by jrh001

[BensDR30]

From memory there are 2 things that made changing out the rear struts in the R30 difficult;

1. not damaging the parcel shelf (remove the rear seat, and the c-pillar trim)

2. Getting a good grip on the nuts (on the top mount!) - they were tight, and had a shallow hex. So they were hard to keep a socket aligned well.

The DR30 was easier than the MR, as it has inspection covers above the upper mount for the electrics to hide under.

[Factory 5]

pity you dont have a hatchback! so easy its not funny... takes 10 minutes each side, just take off the speaker cover, nuts away....

[66yostagea]

pity you dont have a hatchback! so easy its not funny... takes 10 minutes each side, just take off the speaker cover, nuts away....

I had two but they went to the BIG wrecker in the sky.

[skybt1]

the more you take out of the way the more work and time but the easier it is and less chance of causing damage to things you dont want to break.

[dodgsun]

As posted above i also put it up in the suspension section here on SAU, just in case someone here might need it

R30-Rear-Shock-Replacement

only did this 3 weeks ago

Edited August 25, 2009 by dodgsun

[BensDR30]

Nice work.

Looks like you had the factory-fitted leaky rear-left shock too!

[66yostagea]

A couple of weeks and I'll be into it, and I'll keep you posted.