STUCK - Strut will not come out!, Cartridge stuck in the chamber |
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STUCK - Strut will not come out!, Cartridge stuck in the chamber |
ctc911ctc |
May 2 2022, 07:14 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 893 Joined: 9-June 18 From: boston Member No.: 22,206 Region Association: North East States |
'74 2.0, 24K miles all original
Teeners, When I first got this car revived (it was parked in '84, I revived it in 2018) i left the shocks alone. IN 2019 I installed a nice system in the rear. This year I am doing the front - all bushings, and other rubber parts (ball joints). The project came to a halt, I cannot get the strut out of the cylinder I will rig a system to press it out later today I am checking in to see if there might be something I may be missing? I have hit is pretty hard to try and loosen it, no luck yet, soaked it with Liquid Wrench over night. Thanks! |
Shivers |
May 2 2022, 06:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2,427 Joined: 19-October 20 From: La Quinta, CA Member No.: 24,781 Region Association: Southern California |
Or turn the housing up side down, in the press, with the punch.
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Superhawk996 |
May 3 2022, 06:41 AM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,899 Joined: 25-August 18 From: Woods of N. Idaho Member No.: 22,428 Region Association: Galt's Gulch |
Or turn the housing up side down, in the press, with the punch. This is a pretty good approach too. Need to be careful to press square and not bugger up the strut body threads. I'm thinking that you reinstall the gland nut at top of strut. But loosen it by about two turns giving just enough slack to budge the insert. That gland nut will help prevent deformation of the thin strut body tube and protect the threads simultaneously. Really would be surprised that it would take press forces to get it out. The one thing that bothers me is the Bilstein strut inserts since I don't have one to look at. "Real" Bilstein struts have the damper rod pinned in at the bottom of the strut housing with a roll pin that is very obvious. This is going way out there -- is there any thing like that going on with these struts and/or is the bottom hole behind the ball joint bore have some sort of a plug and/or threaded fastener in it? If no success so far . . . can you post a picture of the bottom of strut so we can see inside the ball joint bore and/or verify the damping rod isn't pinned like OEM Bilstein struts? @ctc911ctc |
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