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655 South Lincoln Ave San
Bernardino Ca. 92408 Mustang coilover instruction sheets for kit COMNR-67-70 AND COMNR-67-70-S,D The kit includes the following Installation requires removing the front suspension components except
the steering. 1. Locate the drill template in your kit. The template will be placed on top of the shock tower over the location where the factory carriage bolts locate. Note: The carriage bolts must be removed. Template center punching one hole only
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| Take the template and align the holes so they locate in the narrow slot where the carriage
bolts index. Center punch the inside hole first. Do not center punch all the holes at this
time. 2. Take a 3/8-drill bit and drill the inner hole.  3. Once you have drilled the hole locate the template again and take one of 6 (3/8) fine thread 2 ¾ long allen bolts and drop it down through the template and shock tower. 
4. With the allen bolt aligning the first hole center the 2 remaining holes to be
drilled over the narrow slots that originally indexed the carriage bolts. Take the center
punch and punch one more hole. We recommend doing one hole at a time because of the close
tolerances we have with the upper shock mount and the engine bay shock cover.
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7. Once the allen bolts have slid through the hole and the upper shock
mount is flat against the shock tower. Locate the engine bay shock mount aluminum plate
and thread the bolts into the plate. Tighten down the bolts to 35 pounds. 
8. If you have ordered a negative roll system you will have an upper control arm
template for drilling different locating holes. Note: If you did not
order a negative roll system no template will be provided but you will have to drill the
upper mounting holes out to 9/16 diameter. The original holes are ½ inch diameter.
Slide a couple of ½ inch bolts through the template and inner shock tower. Position the
new holes so they are down below the original. Center punch the holes.
If you have ordered a non negative roll system you will still need to drill the original holes out to 9/16 diameter .
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| If you have ordered a non negative roll system you will still need to
drill the original holes out to 9/16 diameter. 10. After the holes are drilled install the upper control arm.  If you have a negative roll system place the 3/8 inch steel backing plate between the upper control arm shaft and the shock tower. If you do not have a negative roll system you will not have the plate. Just bolt the upper control arm direct. Torque the upper control arm shaft bolts to 90 foot pounds. 11. Installing the lower control arm requires using a locout kit rather then the factory eccentric bolt.
In Use a 4 inch long grade 8 (½ inch bolt) with the locout plates to install the lower
control arm. See below. |
12. After installing the lower control arm you need to install the asr-6
strut rod kit. The asr-6 clevises should only install one way. Notice the flat machined on
the clevis itself. The flat goes down towards the bottom of the car.
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the picture to the left notice the large flat on the clevis. The flat goes down. In the picture to the left notice the large flat on the clevis. The flat goes down.
Slide the clevis up into the frame. The clevis should go flat up against the opening.
Next place the large flat washer on to the clevis followed by the lock washer and then the
1 inch diameter nut. Torque the nut to 120 foot pounds and slide the cotter pin through
the clevis. Thread the collar almost all the way down on the shock.
C. Slide the needle bearing kit onto the shock collar. First slide one thin washer over
then the bearing and then the
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D. Next slide the spring over the shock. E. Locate the retaining clip that holds the top shock cone.
Notice: The clip indexes in the upper shock mount.
F. The upper cone slides over the shaft as shown to the right.
G. Close the clip with your fingers and the upper shock cone will slide up and index in
the slot. To the right the picture shows the upper cone with clip installed. H. Adjust the collar at the bottom of the shock up until it touches the upper cone. We
suggest adjusting the collar up about 2 ¼ inches measured from the base of the shock
where the threads start to the bottom of the adjusting collar.
Notice how the bolt nut indexes onto the
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15. Locate the lower billet shock mount and a ½ inch diameter allen bolt
1 ¼ inches long. Drop the allen bolt down through the hole in the shock mount.
To the right
Locate two (9/16) nuts in your kit and slide one in each slot of the aluminum billet shock mount. Do not tighten them down yet. Note: You will notice the lower shock mount is machined to hold the nuts for tightening down. Tighten down the ½ inch allen bolt next to the ball joint to 70 foot pounds. Next tighten down the 9/16 bolts just till they start to get snug. WE DO NOT WANT TO TORQUE THEM YET. Torque them after the caster is set. The torque specification is 90 foot pounds. If you must drive the car to an alignment shop, torque the bolts now. Instruct the alignment shop to loosen the bolts when setting caster. Loosen just enough to allow the strut rod to slightly shift on the lower control arm. Why? Because when using a spherical rod end on a strut rod it is best to operate with no side loads. Adjusting the length of the strut rod moves the lower control arm forward or aft depending on your desired settings. The angle of strut rod in relationship to the lower control arm will change. Lateral will be induced if the angle of the strut rod is not readjusted. We designed the forward lower control arm strut rod bolt to allow pivoting of the rod. Therefore accommodating the angle change. By loosening the bolts slightly will allow the pivot and elevate unnecessary lateral loads on the spherical rod end. |
17. Slide the lower portion of the shock into the billet lower mount.
Take one of the ½ inch bolts provided in your kit and slide it through. The ½ inch nut
will index on top of the strut rod steering stop. Torque to 70 foot pounds. 18. Install the spindle on to the lower ball joint. Note: A Gold spacer is required
between the spindle and the lower ball joint nut. Torque the ball joint to 90-foot pounds
and cotter pin.
19. Install the upper ball joint through the spindle. Place a 9/16 flat washer between the spindle and the nut. Torque the upper ball joint to 70-foot pounds and cotter pin.
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 20. Installation will be
complete.
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the tower and place 2 bolts through the
template/tower. Center punch the third hole.
The
locout kit part # loc-2 offers 6 different positions, each hole will move the control arm
in or out depending on how you rotate the plates. The plates are numbered 1 through 6. The
more negative camber you want you simply move the holes towards the outside of the
chassis. Make sure that when you align the holes that the plate in the front of the car
reads for an example 1. The back plate on the other side of the frame will position the
number 1 AGAINST THE FRAME. You will not be able to read it. 
stall the lower control arm simply by sliding it up into position.
We recommend installing the locout kit so the bolt holding the lower control arm will be
slightly towards the outside of the car.
last thin washer. Do not lubricate the bearing. The lube will collect dirt over time and
stop the bearing from rotating.
13. Install the shock through the upper control arm.
Alignment specs for street application power steering. (Note: For
manual application reduce caster to 2 degrees positive on passenger side and 1 ½ degrees
positive on driver side.)