Attempting to install the m7 coilover system myself. Got a little lost with the rears. Maybe someone can help.

According to M7's installation guide, I need to reuse the small and large bushings from the stock suspensions. Which parts are those?

 

I just did my H&Rs on friday. I reused parts 12 through 5.

 

Creeve: M7's coilovers must be different because they stated that I needed to reuse only a few things. Mainly bolts but part number 10 in the diagram above(with the lower and upper bushing minus the metal cylinder). I don't see any bushings anywhere. They don't point out what the bushings look like. The only part of number 10 I can see is the metal cylinder which is not reused. What are these bushings that's supposed to be part of number 10?!!?

 

The only bushings I recall are number 13 and number 10 attached to the top hat.

 

There should be a yellow piece in the middle of 10. That is a bushing.

 

Oxybluecoop: 13? That's at the bottom. What is attached to number 10? I don't recall anything being attached.

Creeve: There are a couple of yellow pieces. Which exactly? And it was on the bottom of the top hat, not the top. According to M7's installation guide, it says there's a larger and smaller bushings. All I see is the rubbery yellow thingamagick. Anyone with pictures?

 

Creeve: Oh and the yellow rubbery yellow thingamagick's- aren't they the factory rubber bump stop? Gah I'm confused.

 

Ok, a "source" informed me that there's only 1 bushing(the yellow rubbery thingamagick) and it goes between the spring hat and top hat(which is not what the installation guide stated). Anyone care to confirm?

 

The bushing is the orange/yellow object connected to the top hat(10) of the strut in the first few pages.
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...inisprings.pdf

 

Thank you Oxy. There's definitely just one bushing, not two like the installation guide states.

 

It looks like one, but it should come apart in two pieces (one half on top, the other half on the bottom).