1. After you compress the springs on the front strut tower, very carefully take the top nut off and identify the washer order ( if they fall out, all diagrams showing the order they go in make the washers look alike). If you rush and let them fall you will need to look at the other strut tower.

2. Take your time on decompressing the new springs evenly and make sure your spring pads are seated properly.

3. If you are doing the job yourself (no assistant) if it were me I'd take the rotor off the strut tower - really nasty trying to line up the tower with one hand and hand tighten the strut mount nuts with the other. Dropping the weight of the rotor would have made the job alot less painfull.

4. Make sure you have new shock mounts for the rear, along with the upper and lower pad (in case yours are wasted). Good time to wire brush the centering washer (re-useable but highly corroded - probably a waste of time but the thought of the rust on new components bugged me).

5. The nut that goes on the top of the strut/shock that holds it to the mounts is a self locking nut. Since you cannot re-use them, have spares on hand incase you have to re-align the springs with the pads or do what I did...reversed the order on the rear upper/lower spring pads.

6. When you put the rear shocks together you will have to install the cap that mounts over the top of the shock. Use a long pipe to fit over the shock insert (or shop-vac extension pipe) to pound it over the shock body evenly.

Good luck.