Well I got one of my front struts off and got the spring off. Now how do I put my new strut inside the housing? I can't seem to get the old strut out

 

What year Civic?

 

01 ex coupe sorry about that

 

You can get a free rental for the spring compression tool at AutoZone.

 

Sorry about that I just found out, the hard way that I actualy ordered the wrong thing. Well not entirely look at what koni wants me to do in order to fit their strut into my civic.

Can anyone recommend a high end strut that comes as an assembly rather then just the strut its self? I don't mind putting the spring around the new strut and stuff but all this cutting drilling and hollowing out the old strut and sliding a new one in just doesn't seem safe to me

 

Heres a picture of what i had



the yellow strut is the koni that didnt come with the bottom assembly im looking for struts that come with that bottom peice already attached so i can just slide the new one in with the stock springs