WRX STi Inverted Shock Rebuild - Full Restoration

WRX STi Inverted Shock Rebuild - Full Restoration - Well where do I begin, I picked up these STI KYB inverted shocks for a great price seeing as they were very scabby and more importantly were knocking and that drove the price way down but knowing about these shocks I knew there was a good chance they could be saved with a strip down and rebuild , If not the I’d just blown £250 on nothing but scrap metal. So the first thing to do to rebuild these WRX STi shocks was to remove the springs, always a job I hate no matter how many times I do it as springs have a nasty tendency of wanting to hurt you you can just see them sitting there under tension seething with pure unfiltered rage so anyway they were fully compressed and the top nut was buzzed of and the strut tops removed them the springs were quickly uncompressed and made safe. I then moved on to cleaning up and soaking the bottom nut to help make removal easier as you only get one shot to remove these nuts and if they spin the sha