This has never happened to me or anyone I know of during a suspension install. When we removed the front struts, we lowered the hubs. It didn't look abnormal - the hubs weren't crazy low, it looked like how all the others cars look when we do installs. When we tried to put the struts back in, the hub wouldn't pivot forward to line up with the strut. WTH?!? Guess freaking what? The axel's bearings popped out of the cup near the diff. Pain in the freaking ass. We had to remove the axel completely, take off the cv boot, put the bearings back in the cup (which by the way if this happens to you, the bearing need to be pushed all the way out in order for it to line up correctly), then seal it all back up. BTW this happened on both sides.

Save yourself some trouble. Don't let the hubs hang too low, support it with a jack or something at a good height.

 

yeah, ive heard similar stories about that before. hasnt happened to me yet tho

 

i thought the axle pops out all the time when you don't support the hub? i always just support it though, so i wouldn't really know.

 

This has happened to tons of people. I used bungee cords to hold it up.

 

interesting, first time for everything I guess.

 

i just had another jack hold it up... glad u got it back in tho...

when i was helping my friend install his skunk pro-c on a GD it popped out but we were able to pop it back in...

 

I was hoping we could just push it in, but we couldn't. Had to take off the damn CV boot. Oh well.

Support your hubs!

No homo! hahahah

 

LOL, this happend to me! i thought i was gonna have my car towed home from my buddys house! and i thought i wouldn't be able to buy a new axle cause the cars were so new at the time! It scared the crap out of me, i was ready to cry!

 

I had this happen before on my GD1 & on my GE8 they were more of a pain in the A$$ on the GE8 dueto the fact that each round bearing is slightly differnt in size and they are really a pain to get back in.. I have the frick'n service manual and it was still a PITA!! But thankfully I did not have to open the boot up to get it back in.... Just a bunch of colorful words were usedbto get it back in

 

To me it seemed that keeping the top of the spindle leaned into the car. was just as important as dropping the spindle down too far.
I used an extra jack to lower the strut just enough and kept the top of the spindle bungied in. Zero issues, but the tanks goes to the numerous posters here on FF for the warning.

 

save yourself the trouble by reading the suspension forum too. this is a well discussed topic.

any picts of your lowered ride?

 

 

LOL this happened to me also. what a pain.
only on one side though. i never want to go through
that again.

 

btw your fit looks sick that low.
if i went that low i would never get out of my
driveway LOL
so is this those air bags or is this something else you have under there?

 

DAMN...that is Siiiiick....

 

holy f*cknuts! But yeah there are threads all over this forum about supporting the hub. Sorry you didnt see them