I just bought a second black 2004 XC70 with 120K on the clock that had a broken rear driver side coil spring. I removed the spring / strut assembly, which was easy since the spring basically broke in half then spiraled into itself, so there was no tension. I purchased a new Sachs Strut and Volvo spring, but the rest of the mount / assembly looked to be in good shape. The problem I have is that due to the spring being broken in half, with no tension: the rubber, coil and top mount were all rattling around separate from one another so I could not make a proper alignment mark between the rubber and the aluminum mount.
I was able to get the strut assembled, using what looked like the proper alignment between the spring and the rubber seat, as I just terminated the spring end to the deepest correlating point in the rubber seat. The top mount was a little trickier, so I placed it in the orientation that most closely resembled the angle for the control arm bolt and the top mount hole in the trunk, but it's not exact. One side of the assembly seems fine, but the whole thing just doesn't look right to me. Can anyone explain to me how I should go about confirming this is correct or is there some other procedure I can use when the original orientation was not able to be marked?
Here is the part I think looks off, it's where the spring terminated into the deepest part of the rubber mount:
https://i.imgur.com/0lVvv5a.jpg
Here are revolving pictures of the setup where it looks OK to me:
https://i.imgur.com/myk0LdW.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/8jMzs6Q.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/qnr3FMn.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/xVZKkuZ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/GEDWN3D.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/e8Du3Kr.jpg
This is the final picture. You can see I did attempt to mark the assembly, but as I mentioned the rubber was floating so there was no real way to be sure that it was still positioned correctly, but this was around where I found it, and it seemed to correlate to fitting properly in the car that way.
https://i.imgur.com/ft8aihp.jpg
Any help would be much apprechiated.
Thanks!
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