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Hey everyone

Just put some new rear shocks in my car (Series 1 R33) and I just had a question about whether this looks right to everyone else. Is this the right way for the shock to be facing or should it be facing towards the tyre. It looks ok to me because it has the damper adjuster facing towards the diff so its easier to adjust, but I bought some springs and they had this instruction manual in JAPANESE mind you which had this picture and it looked like that metal spacer thing on the bottom of the shock is facing towards the wheel.

So Im a little confused. What do other peoples one look like? Not sure if it really makes a difference but ye.

Thanks in advance

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Haha ye well I figured that much to but I looked at my brother's car (its a commodore mind you) and it had shocks with a larger spacer like mine and that was facing in the same direction as mine. I actually just also asked my mate who works as a mechanic at nissan and he reckons people there said it looks right but no one has been able to explain what the difference is.

That's why I thought if people can look at their own skylines with aftermarket shocks then maybe we can get a trend going on what theirs looks like.

How is the setup on your rear shocks Munkeyboy?

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Hrmm I see. Thanks for the quick reply at least I have one other 'skyline' to go of. Did someone tell you to face it that way for a reason or did you follow instructions or ....?

Thanks again

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My billies have the spacer towards the mounting point ie as per instructions.

On the front ones the billies don't have the spacer [well I didn't get any supplied] so I measured up a couple of thick washers and used them.

But I reckon they would rub if they weren't spaced at the front, the back I becuase they said and to keep the geometry right [someone had to have figured it out before, that why they say to do it that way].

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Thanks for the reply tridentt150v, that looks like 2 down for facing the other way. Any other people want to join in and tell me how theirs are facing ( and make me have to pull them out again arghhh)?

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Hrmm I see. Thanks for the quick reply at least I have one other 'skyline' to go of. Did someone tell you to face it that way for a reason or did you follow instructions or ....?

Thanks again

They were fitted that way by my mechanic, who has done it a million times. no instructions

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Ok thanks MunkeyBoy, well I decided to go down and ask pedders for some free advice and the guy there who seems like he knows what he is talking about said that it shouldn't matter if both ends of the eyelet spacer thing has the same diameter(which mine has) but if one end is slightly larger of tapered than that end should go towards the bolt I think. He said they sometimes do that for clearances or something like that. I put the front ones in yesterday but I decided to buy a washer as Tridentt did and put that in there which makes it look ok.

Thanks for the replies people, I will keep an eye on it and if it makes noises etc then I will change it and see.

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