Suspension and wheel bearings

The top plates don't get thicker. What's going to happen is there should be a spacer that you've ordered 1.6 in isn't that 40 mm or somewhere thereabouts I just put this on the same car about 3 weeks ago a couple of points you're going to need to be careful of on your new struts You're going to need to knock out the long studs that hold the top plates to your car The new ones are going to be 40 mm or so longer really long on the new struts it may be very difficult to knock out that splined stud which is about 3 in long or so You may have to cut that with your angle grinder and then run your angle grinder across the strut top plate metal so you can see the star and then take a punch and whack those out The new longer spline the studs splines will not be the same so you need to rotate the splines get it close and then smack it with a hammer and seat it x6 of them . And that's about it other than that everything went pretty spiffy when you go to put your suspension and swing everything back up you're going to notice some differences in angles You may have to put some weight or a pry bar to lift up to get everything spiffy The two bolts in the hub assembly usually when I'm doing this I'm changing out the hub bearing and the lower ball joint all at the same time so I don't have this apart again generally in my time with the car You're system may be different.