troubles lowering

[talon guy]

ok well i started to rip apart my car tonight. and i get the passenger side shock and srut out.. so i decompress the srping and go to take the strut out of the spring and it wont come out? so im like wut the hell..i take a closer look at it theres some like bell shaped housing on it or something..how do i go about removing this or wut do i do..to me it looks like my whole suspension has this bell housing thing..
so how do i take this off?..i wanna lower my car badly :beer :cuss

:finger dsm
and i need my car today ( saturday) so i need to get it done..is there any special tool i may need?

[MrBlunt]

i think your having problems w/ your dust shield. take a long screw driver and a hammer and hit it in the center from underneath, it should come loose. mine gave me a little trouble but did eventually come off

[TRBOCHK]

Yup, I had the same problem with mine. It took a lot off hammering, but I hit it from underneath, so it could just pop off, seemed to do the trick.

Josh... you might have to use some muscle :thumb

[BlackEclipse]

Is he talking about the dust cover with the integrated bump stop in it?

[nicodemus13]

Same problem here too... I said screw it and bought new shocks and struts. :D then the engine blew, so they are just sitting in the house waiting to go on.

[EvolvedDSM]

Rust pwnz joo. That shit isn't coming off in one piece. Time to go shopping for some new shocks and some OEM parts.