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Originally Posted by clarkey1984

Hi all, I'm now in the process of building up my new struts, consisting of nearly new sachs shocks that I bought from Gatos some time ago, and the h and r springs from Antz, and now I'm at the point where I remember something about some marks on the upper spring cup and the bottom of the shock spring cup, and instead of fitting things so the marks line up, a twenty degree angle between these marks may be necessary depending on if my cars a sport or not, mine is a t4 s on the logbook, and I've never rebuilt normal struts up on these before, the orange one had coilovers so no such part, or marks were involved.

How important is this, as I have them so the marks are aligned at the moment and all looks good, plus I don't have a protractor haha

Many thanks in advance

the correct way is to line up the marks , otherwise the spring can foul the chassis , it is pretty close at the best of times .