Suspension (strut) damage

[peter at thescirocco.com (Peter)]

Picture?

It sounds like the installer, or whoever did the alignment, tightened the
eccentric bolt, and not the nut, the way you are supposed to. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca] 
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:09 PM
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: OT: Suspension (strut) damage

Okay, odd one tonight. So the kid pulls his wheel off, and there's this
wierdness on the top of those two metal flaps on the front strut that the
eccentric bolt goes through to hold the hub on (with it's non-eccentric
companion bolt), you know the metal flaps on the bottom of the strut housing
that I mean, right?
Anyway, they are both dented forward, like someone took a BFH to them, and
there's a nice ground off groove in them. The wheel clears them by a good cm
(1/2"), and it wouldn't be able to machine a slot in that metal anyway,
they're aluminum rims, and there's no sign of damage on the rim. Strut bolts
are all tight, the reason it's apart is undue motion in the tranny flanges,
and a supercharger sound emanating from the aged gearbox. Which in no way
can cause that ground up spot either.
Any ideas at all?  This is on the Valdez so anything's possible, it's
suspension has been really abused for a very long time. The  airbags won't
shift the position of that piece relative to the wheel or anything else we
can see that could contact that part.