Ok I am an idiot and I need some help from a suspension tuning veteran or someone..!

[DopeCelicaGT]

Ok I need the assistance of someone that really knows what they are doing with suspension upgrades. Ok as some of you know I recently purchased a set of TRD coilovers and installed them around last Christmas, if my memory serves me correctly. After the install the car handled beautifully with these things on but then I broke a Hotchkis endlink so I took those off along with the sway and put the stock sways back on as accurately as possible. Next, I had the driver's side front TRD strut blow on me so I removed it and sent it back in which they gave me a replacement. I put on the replacement the same day I got it in but I was in a hurry as I had to do this before class. Ok well I seriously got to thinking about what I could have done wrong that day and it finally dawned on me. When I replaced the front drivers side strut I only had that one corner of the car up in the air when I disconnected everything (the endlink and strut assembly). Now if I am thinking correctly, and someone please correct me if I am wrong, but would this not preload the sway more toward the passenger side of the car since technically when doing this kind of work you should at least have the whole front end up in the air. If my thinking is correct and I continued to install the strut then proceed with an alignment with this preloaded or moved swaybar then that would be bad. Would this not cause the car to handle bad and erratically? Someone please advise me here. Maybe this has been my problem all along, plus the bad alignment and tire balance job. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks in advance.

Oh and one last thing, if I am correct on my assumption, then how would one remedy the situation and what kind of things should I check out to make sure everything is still good to go. Thanks.

[whitegt01]

when i did my install, my car was on stands, so all 4 sides were off the ground. it sounds like that might be your problem. you kinda answered your own question, if u think that is the problem, the remedy would be to uninstall all, and then reinstall all 4 of them with the car completely off the ground. that just sucks alot to redo it, i did my install myself but i wouldnt attempt it again, it took me like 12 hours to check and double check, and i still got some of it wrong.

i dont think you can mess up the rear sway install, its probably the simplest thing i've ever done on the car. the endlink, i think too is pretty straight forward if i remember correctly. i have trd coilovers, full sway bar set, rear strutbar, tanabe strut bars, and c-one strut bar. i haven't driven another celica, but i know that my car now handles 10x better than when it was stock. you couldn't take turns as aggressively, and it doesn't respond the same way when you're cutting through traffic with a stock setup.