HELP MK1 suspension problems

[corylang@dccnet.com (Cory Langford)]

The strut bearings look brand spanking new.  I have used these before and
they are not bad quality.  I will check to see if they are tightened down
correctly.  I guess if the strut bearing is loose this might happen.

Thanks for the tip.

Cory

At 08:22 PM 10/24/2002 -0400, jp43044 wrote:
>Check your strut bearing.  My Golf does that all the time.  I know it needs
>replaced but hey.  It fixes itself evry once in a while.
>
>Erik
>88 16V
>88 Golf (Urban Insult Vehichle)
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Cory Langford <corylang@dccnet.com>
>To: <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:35 PM
>Subject: HELP MK1 suspension problems
>
>
>>
>>
>> Well, I think I did something bad to the '79 yesterday :(
>>
>> I was not paying attention and I ended up hitting a rather nice large pot
>> hole dead on with the driver side wheel at about 120 KPH.
>>
>> When I hit it, it sounded like I ran into a wall. Nice huge BANG, and I
>hit
>> the brake, but the car started rocking in a very weird way.  It was like
>it
>> was rocking back and forth between the front driver side and rear pass
>> side.  Almost like the wheels were no in the same plane as the other two
>> corners.
>>
>> Even at slow speeds it did this, until about 5 minutes of slow driving
>> later, I went over another bump and the front end seemed to pop up and
>> things went back to normal again.
>>
>> I have not had a chance to look under the car yet. So I figured I would
>get
>> some opinions for sat. job of pulling the suspension apart.
>>
>> The guy I bought it off of put new struts into it (or so he says) and it
>> definitely has nice new Febi strut bearing/caps on.
>>
>> Any thoughts of where to look?
>>
>> I was thinking if he forgot to put the bump stops into the front, I may
>> have hammered the strut into the top of the cart. and it go stuck until it
>> worked its way back out again.  Is that possible?
>>
>>
>> Cory Langford
>> '86 turbo project - running, just needs tuning :)
>> '79 daily driver - Restore in progress...
>> '65 Ghia - The next project in the garage
>>
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