My Low-Mile Acura Integra Finally Gets New Struts! 

As a fellow terrible mechanic I totally feel that sense of satisfaction/relief when something goes back together correctly. And, best of all, solves the problem!

I'm mighty impressed Ethan - compared to my skills, you're a fighter plane engineer....and that Integra's lookin' tres cool....

I love how clean this Integra is

Satisfying fix! Im curious how "floppy" the old struts were (were you able to compress them easily with your hands, or against the ground?)

Whew, almost missed SHOCKTOBER!

Great job!!! BTW.. love your yellow ASICS!! 😀😀

You should probably get an alignment, great job

While I drive my integra , it drives rough and I feel like the hits when I’m driving and it’s not really a comfy drive , but I was looking , and I wanted to know if I should get coilovers or struts? I know coilovers are for performance but do coilovers also get the job done? Or should I just go for struts

The music you use in your videos is really good and different

I'm glad you didn't go coilovers. OEM is best

I hope you torqued everything down behind the scenes.

Made a video on my probe just the only fact it’s not a great one I need help from other people as it has a pretty bad idling issue also great video btw!

where did you purchase the struts from if you dont mind?

Greetings from Glenn in Cleveland! YAY, job well done! I have to do struts on my 2009 Civic coupe. Now I can see how easy of a job it is. :) BTW I like the your cars stance.

Yeah the rear was easy for you cause you didn’t have rust and ended up with a bolt breaking off. This can turn into a project.

back in the days, I really likes that integra!!!!

Where did you get those struts?

Whats the part number for the struts

That is one good looking car.

Good on you for wearing gloves! So many RU-vidrs don't wear them and I always wonder how bad their hands must feel after working on a car for a while

Stock is always best.

(Doing my best Jeremy Clarkson impression) YOU'VE DONE A THING!

Great job Ethan! Well done on the car and the video. Very creative with editing and sound. Those Integras were, and are still my favorite Acura, san the NSX! I remember seeing the commercial back in college where it was going like on a track or something. I was drooling over the design! I'm going to look up that commercial...

If you ever sell this car, I'm sure you'll have a lot of interest in it. Very hard to find a stock Integra (or any Honda/Acura of that vintage) still totally stock. I just hope that the person who buys it appreciates that and keeps it stock and doesn't see it as a blank canvas to lower, put on a fart can exhaust, 22" wheels, stickers, etc.

You made it look easy enough for me to try it when the time comes to change struts. I am a so-so diy guy at best. I am the original owner of a 94 Integra GSR that has almost 90,000 kilometers. I am slowly starting to replace parts as they become defective.

Great video. I probably need new shocks/struts for my Crown Vic.

And if that had been a car from out east/rust belt it would not have been anywhere near that quick and simple! In that case, best to take it to a mechanic to fight with seized nuts and bolts.

Looks like you installed the first strut 180 degrees out. The alignment tab goes toward the inside of the car and seats in the pinch bolt gap.

Very helpful video, thanks. I'd been procrastinating on doing mine because I feared I had to remove the front knuckle to get the strut out. Now I will get started. I understand the desire to keep video shorter, but audio saying " I skipped the part about torquing to spec and preloading suspension before tightening would help others not forget or make those mistakes after only watching your video. FYI, ridiculously clean, nice looking, rust free example of a used Integra (DC2). New England'ers can only dream of old cars that nice!

On the rears, its easier if you would have removed the lower control arm bolt.

Where did you get the struts

Keeping the car as stock as possible? Nice idea, but... How about installing a modest rear spoiler on the trunk? For me that is missing. Maybe I have played tooooo much with Need For Speed Underground back in the day... :D Very inspirational video BTW, I have to tell you.

You used the drill to torque the wheels on. Wrong very wrong. & The reason the car was sitting like it was jacked up was because you didn't preload the lower control arms before you tightened the lower shock bolt. This will make your alignment all wrong and can rip out the lower rubber bushing that the shock is bolted to & you didn't torque or check any bolt that you tightened with the impact gun. Not safe. & Since the rear shock didn't have the bolt welded on you need to use a lock washer or it can loosen as the car gos up & down it's can & most likely will because you didn't preload the suspension & as it settles back to where it should be it will either rip the rubber or that the bolt turn. I think it's great that people work on there car either because they can't afford to pay a shop or because they want to learn how to work on cars or in my case because you can't trust anyone else to do it right (which is sad because I paid shop to fix my car & got screwed more then once including a tuner at a Dyno that I paid $500 for the Dyno time & tuning to have him not tighten my distributor after timing my timing on a big cammed high compression port & polish DOHC ZC with ever bolt on there is & a 75hp shop of nos. Well the first launch after leaving the Dyno ended up being taking off in 1st & so soon as I shifted into 2nd & floored it the jdm 30k engine that I had bought not 6 month earlier blow-up before I even hit 4000 rpm. Totally destroyed the engine, Lq A

Did they get settled in and lower down a little bit?

I love that car!! Really awesome. Also, at about the 3 min. mark, suns out guns out. LOL. Were you pleased with what the Turbo Pontiac sold for? I thought it did well!

I did the front struts on the Fit. Got a quote from an independent shop and they wanted over $800. Saved a lot. Didn’t use a lot but borrowed the spring compressor from the parts place. Then the front wheel dropped and bent the CV axle. Argh. Wasn’t clear what the problem was at first, but it drove horribly. Getting my regular mechanic to fix that was still cheaper overall than getting the first shop to do the struts alone. Gave me a good boost of confidence, and I learned not to let that wheel drop when you remove the old strut. I spent more by buying good brand of struts, but saved by using the old springs instead of the kit. …And of course the ride was SO much better.

I have new KYB struts stored in my garage for my 1989 Nissan Sentra

Do you have a link to the ones you purchased?

Where did you buy them?

Gonna do struts on my integra soon too I just ordered some 🙏

I hope you keep the original suspension components and eventually rebuild them with a gas charged OEM replacement from Bilstein or Koni. I will definitely take genuine Honda springs over random aftermarket. Plus they are OE, I love the pre 1999 Honda double wishbone front suspension over the Macpherson strut cost cutting that replaced it.

Which strut and shocks are those

How far did you get before you realized that the brake hose was on the wrong side of that first strut?

Dude I love your channel! that car is awesome too! keep up the good work!

No PB blaster? No torches? No neverseize upon reassembly? California has no clue how the rest of us live

Your bushings need replacement as well

I’ll visit you soon with my Camry.

What brand of struts did you use

How are they working out ? And what brand did you go with

love that car

That Integra is beautiful

wheel alignment ??

DIY all the way!

Nice job!

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