I have heard numerous of people complaining about the rusting of TEIN
suspension. I personally used HR and it does rust.

My question is if it's the same for Aluminum body TEIN suspension, ie. RA, RS, RE and N1 Will them still rust? or rusting only happens to HR HA or any grade lower?

Please answer only if you have severe winter snow storm. because that's
what my area is in the winter.

thanks

 

this topic has been covered before. i'm too lazy to do a search.

a&j racing did my install and coated everything with molyslip. i ended up spraying everything with my can of chain wax from my gsxr. it's been 3 months now and nothing to report. just have to wait for winter i guess.

 

Don't you know that aluminum does not rust?

If u don't kno, now u kno jigga~

 

Aluminum does "rust" (Oxidized) It creates Aluminum Oxide but it actually strengthens the material and won't likely happen on a coated RA or N1.

 

Regardless of whether you're using the HAs, RAs, or whateverAs you should swap back to stock for the winter. Why do you need to be so low when there are snowbanks to dodge? It takes about as much time to raise all four corners of the car than it does to swap the stockers back in. I'm exaggerating a little bit, but not by much. Plus when they're out of the car you can disassemble and clean them properly. Mine were screwed after last winter to the point where I thought they were toast. Cleaning the threads restored them to almost new condition. Plus you'll get such a soft supple ride with the stockers back in. I'm almost looking forward to the end of the race season now...

 

Tein RA, RS... etc... sure will not rust since it is aluminum made. BUT the adjust perche will have a chance of cracking up....... for some reasons all the Tein perches are cast aluminum made and the will crack under low temperature like 5 or under..... so any places up North is not recommended to use them.

 

Will apply grease over the threaded part help preventing rusting at all? The RA will crack/bend is due to its soft aluminum structure.. It's not recommended to use the RA on regular street if you have lots of pot holes or street irregularities.

 

I don't know about the RA's but I have the HA's and I have just gone through one Canadian winter with them. My front shocks are perfect except for the top threads where the shock adjustments are made. One side has turned to a rust colour so I will be spraying rust check on it this week. As for the rears, I have noticed some rust but not anything major. Just rust like on your disc breaks when you get water on them. So far they are working fine. I think the key is to always wash them out on a regular basis. I sprayed out all the salt and snow at least once a week at the coin car wash.

 

I simply coat the threads on HA's with anti-seize when I install and cover threads with duct tape during winter. I also recommend customer move the perches and clean/rocoat the threads each fall and Spring. I have used RA's in the worst roads in the US plus in dead of winter with no problems whatsoever. Then again, maybe I was just lucky. RA perches will not seize at all BTW.

 

What are you talking about?? Jack that sucker up as high as it will go (adjustable coilovers aren't they) and you'll have no problem going throught the snow drifts.

Phat R - who is very impressed by Ben Tangs resourcefulness. Chain wax? There's such a thing?


[Modified by Big Phat R, 10:06 AM 6/19/2001]