Bilstein install help please

[amalventano1@comcast.net (Allyn)]

Rick,
    Put the cartridge back on the car with no spring. bolt it up at the bottom and top. Take the
brake caliper/rotor off. Get a nice mini-sledge and pound the hub carrier in the downward direction
(hit it where its thick, such that you get the max downward impact).
    If you can pull that off with some sort of table vices it may be easier, but on the car is where
i see getting the max force with the sledge.
Al

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Alexander" <rick@brubakerbox.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 7:21 PM
Subject: Bilstein install help please


> I'm refreshing the front of Rolling Roc ('87 16v). I'm installing Bilstein
> sport inserts and a 22mm sway bar. I've done this many times but I've never
> had a strut cartridge refuse to come out of the carrier. The retaining nut
> is off. I've re-installed the spring in hopes that it will pull the insert
> out but no dice. I don't want to hit it much more for fear of bending the
> strut housing. I don't want to put heat on it for the obvious reasons. Do
> any of you have another trick to get the strut out?
>
> Rick Alexander
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