STUCK - Strut will not come out!, Cartridge stuck in the chamber Options

[ctc911ctc]

'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!

[Superhawk996]

Thanks for those pictures!

Damper rod is definitely a deformed rivet swage type connection to the end cap.

From the looks of it, the end cap appears to have been wedged around the OD of the piston damper rod / end cap to the black Boge strut ID. I think that was liquid-tite and preventing any penetrating oil from getting by it?

Jounce bumper cracking (if I'm seeing that right) is good indication that it has bottomed hard more than a couple times which could really wedge the end cap.

Just curious, since that end cap has come undone, can the whole large chrome end of the damper be pulled out of the yellow tube?

If you don't want to do that I understand. i don't think that end cap is ever supposed to come free of the yellow strut insert body but now that it has, I'd suspect the whole damper can now be removed from the yellow tube to expose the linear bushings.

@ctc911ctc

[ctc911ctc]

Would you like me to send it to you?

Or I can take more pics?

Please let me know

Thanks for those pictures!

Damper rod is definitely a deformed rivet swage type connection to the end cap.

From the looks of it, the end cap appears to have been wedged around the OD of the piston damper rod / end cap to the black Boge strut ID. I think that was liquid-tite and preventing any penetrating oil from getting by it?

Jounce bumper cracking (if I'm seeing that right) is good indication that it has bottomed hard more than a couple times which could really wedge the end cap.

Just curious, since that end cap has come undone, can the whole large chrome end of the damper be pulled out of the yellow tube?

If you don't want to do that I understand. i don't think that end cap is ever supposed to come free of the yellow strut insert body but now that it has, I'd suspect the whole damper can now be removed from the yellow tube to expose the linear bushings.

@ctc911ctc