Suspension (strut) damage

[raveracer77 at yahoo.ca (raveracer77)]

    Are they stock sized rims and tires?  If it's bent the way I'm thinking then that would have taken hulk like force.  I can't see wider tires making that much force even if the tires were rubbing on the inner fender well.  The only thing I can think of would have to have been some kind of stick or log that would have jammed up in there while moving, but you could not have missed that, and the alignment would have been thrown off.  There is another more nefarious option and that would be that the last mechanic, if you have it serviced somewhere, would have gotten frustrated and bent it accidentally or in a fit of rage, then aligned it to conceal the issue.  I've seen crazier.  If you're in Guelph with it, Klaus Becker is a genious with old Dub alignments and geometry.  Kenny McCarl is also very good but a little wound up from stress.  Kenny did my Tranny swap when I blew up my GTX's 2Y.  That's when he suggested the TD tranny which is like the 4K one.  Er, just don't menion my name to poor Kenny, I used to bring all sorts of crazy nonsense problems to him.   Most of them my own damn fault ;)

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: C Boyko 
  To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org 
  Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 08:08 PM
  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.


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