Coil spring replacement

#1

I have a rear driver side coil spring brown at the bottom and in need of
replacement.

Are these changed as a pair or can I get away with just doing the broken
one. The other one as far as I can see looks ok.

#2

"munki" <none (AT) none (DOT) com> schreef in bericht news:h4srqm$obo$1 (AT) aioe (DOT) org...

Quote:

I have a rear driver side coil spring brown at the bottom and in need of
replacement.

Are these changed as a pair or can I get away with just doing the broken
one. The other one as far as I can see looks ok.

Replace them both. New springs have more tension. It's the same with shock
absorbers.

SFC

#3

SFC wrote:

Quote:

"munki" <none (AT) none (DOT) com> schreef in bericht news:h4srqm$obo$1 (AT) aioe (DOT) org...
I have a rear driver side coil spring brown at the bottom and in need of
replacement.

Are these changed as a pair or can I get away with just doing the broken
one. The other one as far as I can see looks ok.

Replace them both. New springs have more tension. It's the same with shock
absorbers.

SFC

Hmm I'm doing the same job soon, do you need spring compressors or are
the rears on the golf quite low tension ?

Also do you need to change the shocks too with new springs ?

#4

Peter smith <Peter324234_removeme (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

SFC wrote:
"munki" <none (AT) none (DOT) com> schreef in bericht news:h4srqm$obo$1 (AT) aioe (DOT) org...
I have a rear driver side coil spring brown at the bottom and in need of
replacement.

Are these changed as a pair or can I get away with just doing the broken
one. The other one as far as I can see looks ok.

Replace them both. New springs have more tension. It's the same with shock
absorbers.

SFC

Hmm I'm doing the same job soon, do you need spring compressors or are
the rears on the golf quite low tension ?

Also do you need to change the shocks too with new springs ?

You don't, but I always feel the most expensive part of the job is
stripping the bugger down, whilst doing one it doesn't add much to get
the other at the same time. The only downside to this principle is I got
from needing one front strut on the golf, to replacing all 4 springs n
shocks. This was partly though as decided to uprate the lot, so it got
lowered and sports shocks, so couldn't really do the front without doing
the back.
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#5

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Quote:

Hmm I'm doing the same job soon, do you need spring compressors or are the
rears on the golf quite low tension ?

No compressors are needed with the back springs.

Quote:

Also do you need to change the shocks too with new springs ?

No, if the shocks are leaking then I'd replace them in the same go.

SFC

#6

"SFC" <sf-cillari (AT) hetnet (DOT) nl> wrote

Quote:

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Hmm I'm doing the same job soon, do you need spring compressors or are
the rears on the golf quite low tension ?

No compressors are needed with the back springs.

Also do you need to change the shocks too with new springs ?

No, if the shocks are leaking then I'd replace them in the same go.

SFC

So to be a thread snatcher.

I have this job to do. How do you remove the rear springs on the golf ?

Laymans terms would be welcomed

#7

"munki" wrote

Quote:

"SFC" wrote

"

Hmm I'm doing the same job soon, do you need spring compressors or are
the rears on the golf quite low tension ?

No compressors are needed with the back springs.

Also do you need to change the shocks too with new springs ?

No, if the shocks are leaking then I'd replace them in the same go.

SFC

So to be a thread snatcher.

I have this job to do. How do you remove the rear springs on the golf ?

Laymans terms would be welcomed

No idea, but I just did the rear springs on my '84 Transporter....dead easy.

In case of any similarities, all I did was jack it up, remove wheel, undid
bottom shock absorber bolt, lowered trailing arm, popped broken spring out,
popped new spring in, bolted shock absorber back up, put wheel back on,
lowered it back to the ground and re-torqued the shock bolt....job done.

#8

"caroline" <nospam (AT) thanks (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

"munki" wrote

"SFC" wrote

"

Hmm I'm doing the same job soon, do you need spring compressors or are
the rears on the golf quite low tension ?

No compressors are needed with the back springs.

Also do you need to change the shocks too with new springs ?

No, if the shocks are leaking then I'd replace them in the same go.

SFC

So to be a thread snatcher.

I have this job to do. How do you remove the rear springs on the golf ?

Laymans terms would be welcomed

No idea, but I just did the rear springs on my '84 Transporter....dead
easy.

In case of any similarities, all I did was jack it up, remove wheel, undid
bottom shock absorber bolt, lowered trailing arm, popped broken spring
out, popped new spring in, bolted shock absorber back up, put wheel back
on, lowered it back to the ground and re-torqued the shock bolt....job
done.

Just done it yesterday evening and it was exactly as you describe.
Thankfully I may add. Only trouble was the shock absorber bolt was a bit
seized. A spray of halfords shock and unlock and it came off thankfully.
Although its ocndition was pretty worn so I think I'll get round to getting
a new one.

By anychance do you remember the torque settings ? (not sure why I ask as I
don;t have a torque wrench after our garage being burgled!) I'm hoping to
get away with doing it nice and tight.

Thanks for the post most useful!

#9

"munki" wrote

Quote:

"caroline" wrote

"munki" wrote

So to be a thread snatcher.

I have this job to do. How do you remove the rear springs on the golf ?

Laymans terms would be welcomed

No idea, but I just did the rear springs on my '84 Transporter....dead
easy.

In case of any similarities, all I did was jack it up, remove wheel,
undid bottom shock absorber bolt, lowered trailing arm, popped broken
spring out, popped new spring in, bolted shock absorber back up, put
wheel back on, lowered it back to the ground and re-torqued the shock
bolt....job done.

Just done it yesterday evening and it was exactly as you describe.
Thankfully I may add. Only trouble was the shock absorber bolt was a bit
seized. A spray of halfords shock and unlock and it came off thankfully.
Although its ocndition was pretty worn so I think I'll get round to
getting a new one.

By anychance do you remember the torque settings ? (not sure why I ask as
I don;t have a torque wrench after our garage being burgled!) I'm hoping
to get away with doing it nice and tight.

Thanks for the post most useful!

You're welcome, glad it helped ;o)

The torque for the shock bolt on the Transporter is 100 ft-lb
I assume it will be similar for the Golf?

Hope that helps

Rgds
Caroline

#10

"caroline" <nospam (AT) thanks (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

"munki" wrote

"caroline" wrote

"munki" wrote

So to be a thread snatcher.

I have this job to do. How do you remove the rear springs on the golf ?

Laymans terms would be welcomed

No idea, but I just did the rear springs on my '84 Transporter....dead
easy.

In case of any similarities, all I did was jack it up, remove wheel,
undid bottom shock absorber bolt, lowered trailing arm, popped broken
spring out, popped new spring in, bolted shock absorber back up, put
wheel back on, lowered it back to the ground and re-torqued the shock
bolt....job done.

Just done it yesterday evening and it was exactly as you describe.
Thankfully I may add. Only trouble was the shock absorber bolt was a bit
seized. A spray of halfords shock and unlock and it came off thankfully.
Although its ocndition was pretty worn so I think I'll get round to
getting a new one.

By anychance do you remember the torque settings ? (not sure why I ask as
I don;t have a torque wrench after our garage being burgled!) I'm hoping
to get away with doing it nice and tight.

Thanks for the post most useful!

You're welcome, glad it helped ;o)

The torque for the shock bolt on the Transporter is 100 ft-lb
I assume it will be similar for the Golf?

Hope that helps

Rgds
Caroline

Fantastic!!

I managed to find my haynes to double check and its spot on

Appreciate the post.