What to buy with Tokico blues

Alex Kurdian · Post by **Alex Kurdian** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:09 pm

Hi All
In the near future I’m going to be ordering Tokico Blues for my neon
I already have lowering springs and I just bought new OEM bump stops in case my old ones are trash...
Do I need to buy anything else for the swap and will the stock bump stops need some sort of trimming etc? ie any bushings or ??? any help would be greatly appreciated...

I'm also pretty sure my top hats are ok...car seems to be driving ok...
Thanx guys

nerox · Post by **nerox** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:18 pm

Alex Kurdian wrote:Hi All
In the near future I’m going to be ordering Tokico Blues for my neon
I already have lowering springs and I just bought new OEM bump stops in case my old ones are trash...
Do I need to buy anything else for the swap and will the stock bump stops need some sort of trimming etc? ie any bushings or ??? any help would be greatly appreciated...

I'm also pretty sure my top hats are ok...car seems to be driving ok...
Thanx guys

you might want to properly check your tophats, my car seemed fine but when i took my front suspension apart the tophats were trashed, little balls everywhere from the bearing splitting open

Alex Kurdian · Post by **Alex Kurdian** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:22 pm

Thanx mate but what do you mean by bearings? I didn't know top hats needed bearings?

nerox · Post by **nerox** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:36 pm

This is what you'll see when you get it removed from the car.

there is 2 parts on top of the spring, firstly is the 'isolator' and on top of that is the mount (shown rusty)

dont forget you will need to bodge together a tool like this to get that nut off (also soak in WD first - will be stiff)

Old and new tophat comparison (see trashed bearing and loose balls)

Alex Kurdian · Post by **Alex Kurdian** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:08 am

Ahhh thanx mate so should I buy both front and rear top hats?

and do they come with the bearing? I know modern performance sell them

http://www.modernperformance.com/category/453

they sell top hats and Mopar OEM Front Spring Rotator Bearing 00-05 Neon /

nerox · Post by **nerox** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:14 am

they should be the same thing and they should come with the bearing fitted(i would email and check first) , mine did but i got Mopar ones from http://www.trademotion.com/partlocator/ ... eid=215039 whilst getting a load of other parts.

i didnt do the rears so can't comment

Alex Kurdian · Post by **Alex Kurdian** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:54 am

Cool but what about the Bump stops I heard they need to be cut for lowered cars???

nerox · Post by **nerox** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:24 am

well the guy who fitted my lowering springs (onto oem shocks) cut the bump stop in half but after a while i replaced them with new ones coz it was making some nasty noises over bumps and its better now.

so i wouldn't recommend cutting them but for Tokicos that may be different

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What to buy with Tokico blues

What to buy with Tokico blues

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