Re: AVOS Coil-overs = Garbage

[Peter L <thescirocco@juno.com>]

No, on a gas charged shock or strut, it fights movement both ways.

I installed those AVO's less than a month ago, and originally they had
pressure.
If you pushed them down, they would come back up.

Peter

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:40:33 PDT "Ian Overholt" <ioverholt@hotmail.com>
writes:
> Isn't this the way shocks are supposed to work?  They are dampeners.  
> The 
> spring compresses and then tries to rebound, but the shock pulls 
> against 
> that rebound.  I think you should have to pull the shaft out.
> 
> Ian Overholt
> '88 16v
> '78 Sidewinder
> 
> 
> >From: A1SCIROCCO@aol.com
> >To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> >Subject: AVOS Coil-overs = Garbage
> >Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:32:43 EDT
> >
> >I took off my front coil-overs which are only 2 weeks old to 
> replace the
> >spring with a 250lb eibach ers spring.  Well what i discovered was 
> pretty
> >distrubing.  If if push the shaft down you get the bubbely blown 
> out shock
> >sound and the shaft wont rise at all!  I pushed it down and sat 
> there and
> >watched it for at least 15minutes and the damn thing didnt go up at 
> all!
> >Anyway i think im going to have a hard time returning these things. 
>  Do you
> >think so?  I think that they will say its my fault. Damn AVO'S
> >
> >Matt
> >
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