hey guys..i just got home and popped open my hood and saw this? is it a blown shock...i looked at it and there is no oil resedue (sp?) on the lowering spring from what i saw..




this pic is off my celly phone too
note: this is on the driver side : ) THANKS!

 

First of all WTF happened to your screen name?



Seriously though, someone assembled that strut wrong. They left out one of the washers and that is the end result. That is a the most common mistake I see on at-home lowering jobs here at my shop.

I see if I can find an exploded view of a strut and show you exactly what I mean.

BTW:

Who lowered your car? I'd check the rears too if I were you.

 

Here:



Looks like either number 6 and/or number 14 are missing.

That is the problem - it can be nothing else, trust me.

Tear that bitch apart and assemble it like this picture I just posted here.

 

the 2 rear are fine and the passenger side is fine..and i've noticed that is been bouncy

 

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Since the car was lowered, or what?

Have you had any recent messings with that side of the suspension?

Usually it will pop out like that immediately or at least shortly after assembling it like that...

 

yeah i just had it lowered not to long ago...i do'nt think i have the other stuff in my garage that i am missing..should i just go to the dealer and order them?

 

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Looks like either number 6 and/or number 14 are missing.

That is the problem - it can be nothing else, trust me.

Tear that bitch apart and assemble it like this picture I just posted here.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Isnt #7 the piece that would stop the strut from doing that. Its the piece that actually seats onto the machine lip of the strut. I might have the wrong # with the part im describing but either way its a washer looking deal that actually seats on the strut shaft.

 

Was the shock riding a lot fully collapsed? Seems to me the top of the shock was the bump stop and you just busted through it.

 

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Isnt #7 the piece that would stop the strut from doing that. Its the piece that actually seats onto the machine lip of the strut. I might have the wrong # with the part im describing but either way its a washer looking deal that actually seats on the strut shaft.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Number 7 is the foam rubber bumpstop itself.

 

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#7 is a bushing...#14 is the bump stop collar (the piece that you described).

edit: "foam rubber"???? wtf?!?!?!

 

heh then nevermind my post. Listen to the man with 8k posts. #14 it is

 

dang Tom, that is a crappy pic right there

Here's a better one, you are missing #15 in this diagram (#14 in Tom's diagram that he posted). That is the only thing it can be. The washer that goes on top of the bushings won't make any difference as to it doing that or not.

 

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#7 is a bushing...#14 is the bump stop collar (the piece that you described).

edit: "foam rubber"???? wtf?!?!?! </TD></TR></TABLE>

UP YOURS PAL!



I was looking at the wrong thing. the bushings are most definately black rubber.

I'm at work and I'm distracted a lot.

Edit:

Chalk this up as time number 3 that i've been wrong on H-T.

 

thats ****** crazy that a washer can cause that ****!

 

cool thanks guys...so what is it called so i can just tell him exactly what i want ..so i don't have to say..i want that round thing blah blah blah and if you look in my pic..you see that the main middle screw is beat up..should i just get a new one?

 

how is it possible for the strut to do that

it would have to compress the spring to come that high
unless they are very short springs, but i still do not understand how such a simple part can do so much damage with out it

im riding with no dustcovers, cut bumpstops and possibly missing that part (unless that is the bumpstop washer) and my suspension seems fine, but the new springs go in next week hopefully... am i in jeopardy toooo?