Tein + GR-2 woes... Options

[phokur]

Ok, so I finally made the plunge and picked up some KYB GR-2s and Tein S-techs since my rears went out. The installation was pretty smooth until I lowered the car. (I should add in I got strut cartridges for the front that just replaced the shock, the rears were full strut assemblies.) The car made very odd rubber-on-rubber sounding grinds and pops. I put it on the lift and watched the springs, they torqued with the top half rigid and the bottom half turning. I figured it must be the upper bearings so I put a healthy amount of axle grease on them and reassembled the struts. Then popping is much less now, but still noticeable going into and coming out of left turns. I know my driver front axle is bad, so I will be replacing that next; but I think the sound is strut related. Any ideas?

[Celicam8]

did you put the washer in under the nut? its like a 1/4" thick washer... thats the noise I heard when I forgot to put mine in.... also if you did forget it, means you overtightened the nut... its a b***h to take it off, I had to melt the plastic off and force it off (without damaging shock) then you need to replace nut... stock ones work