Steering Rack Spacers Options

[EPK]

I guess I should have been more specific with my question regarding the installation of Steering rack spacers after you lower the car.
The problem is this, when the stock bolts are removed the rack doesn't want to be lifted up in order to add the spacers and longer bolts?. Does something else need to be loosened in order to install the spacers and longer bolts.

[Eric_Shea]

I posted this in another thread but it sounds like it might be useful here... These are the instructions that should come with the Weltmeister kit.

(2) 17mm and (2) 13mm bolts get the suspension pan off.

(2) 17mm bolts hold the rack to the crossbar.

You should also have a 13mm and a 14mm open end wrench to loosen the u-joints under the dash.

1. Loosen the u-joints under the dash.
2. Take the suspension pan off.
3. Remove the 17mm bolts holding the steering rack.
4. Lift the rack and insert bump steer spacers.
5. Install new (supplied, longer) 17mm bolts holding the rack to the crossbar. Torque to spec.
6. Install the pan.
7. Torque the u-joints to spec.

Lowering the car requires an 11mm socket on a ratchet or an 11mm open end wrench. The socket is obviously faster. To lower the car, loosen the adjustment screws on the end of your torsion bars. Bounce the car and take measurements to the top of the wheel arch. There is a factory procedure for setting the ride heigth which basically requests that the tie-rods be parallel with the ground. This is what the bump steer spacers accomplish.

8. Get an alignment.