Strut bearing replacement

[haygood at myway.com (Brian Haygood)]

The big nut?  That means your impact wrench isn't big enough.  :)









 --- On Thu 11/23, Jim Jarrett < jarrett@rpa.net > wrote:

From: Jim Jarrett [mailto: jarrett@rpa.net]

To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org

Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:12:58 -0600

Subject: Re: Strut bearing replacement



So here is a somewhat related question:<br><br>What does it mean if you can never get the top nut to tighten to  <br>torque spec???<br><br><br>On Nov 23, 2006, at 6:50 PM, C Boyko wrote:<br><br>> Will the spring not push it upwards if that nut is released? In  <br>> which case,<br>> it's best to have the whole thing out of the car. One more thing, I  <br>> had a<br>> noise in the Cabby that sounded for all the world like a bad strut  <br>> bearing<br>> (rattle on hard load/unload). It was missing anti-rattle clips in  <br>> the front<br>> brakes.<br>> Cathy<br>><br>> On 6:59 pm 11/23/06 "Andy Hartsig" <hartsiga@msu.edu> wrote:<br>>> Ya those are what I'm talking about.  I've got the CV's out for some<br>>> trans work so I tried to just pull the 2 nuts that hold the  <br>>> bearing to<br>>> the body. I dropped it down and it didn't want to go down far  <br>>> enough to<br>>> let me tip it out from the fenderwell. I think it was either the  <br>>> tierod<br>>> end or the 
balljoint that limited the travel. It looks like I'll need<br>>> to put an allen wrench in the shaft of the strut and use either a<br>>> offset box wrench or a socket that I can turn w/ a wrench to undo the<br>>> top nut.  Should I be able to pull this off without unbolting the  <br>>> strut<br>>> from the knuckle?<br>>><br>>> Andy  84 mk2 rocco<br>>>   ----- Original Message -----<br>>>   From: raveracer77<br>>>   To: Andy Hartsig ; scirocco-l@scirocco.org<br>>>   Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 6:51 PM<br>>>   Subject: Re: Strut bearing replacement<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>>       If it's the strut bearing at the top (are there any others?)<br>>> then you should just be able to take the top nuts off of the  <br>>> inside of<br>>> the cap and unscrew them with some angled tipped needle nose pliers.<br>>> At least that's how they were assembled on my MK1.  The struts on my<br>>> A2's have all had the bearings just slide out of the top, not even<br>>> threaded.<br>>><br>>>      
   Rave Racer<br>>>   Currently:<br>>>   NEW!!  91 Jetta GLI 2.0L 16V<br>>>   '81 Scirocco Mk1 1.8L 8V Digifant 2<br>>><br>>>   '89 Jetta GTX 1.8L 16V<br>>>   '87 Audi 4000 Quattro<br>>>    http://www.audifans.com/registry/view.php?action=viewCar&carid=110<br>>>   '72 Triumph GT6<br>>>    http://www.triumphowners.com/uploaded/ <br>>> 34/50-50-111014_20raveracer-g<br>>> t6-1.jpg<br>>><br>>>   http://spaces.msn.com/raveracer77/photos/<br>>>   http://www.myspace.com/rave_racer<br>>>   ___________________________________________<br>>><br>>>     ----- Original Message -----<br>>>     From: Andy Hartsig<br>>>     To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org<br>>>     Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 04:43 PM<br>>>     Subject: Strut bearing replacement<br>>><br>>><br>>>     Ok so my strut bearings are rattling enough to annoy me into<br>>> changing them.     Does anyone know if it's possible to replace them<br>>> without completely     removing the strut and requiring a<br>>> realignment? I was 
thinking of     compressing the spring while the<br>>> strut is still attached and hopefully that     will give me enough<br>>> room to pull the bearing without removing the whole     thing. Any<br>>> ideas?  Any way of removing the whole strut without needing an<br>>> alignment afterward?<br>>><br>>>     Thanks,<br>>><br>>>     Andy<br>>><br>>>     P.S. Happy Turkey Day!!<br>>><br>>><br>>>     _______________________________________________<br>>>     Scirocco-l mailing list<br>>>     Scirocco-l@scirocco.org<br>>>     http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Scirocco-l mailing list<br>>> Scirocco-l@scirocco.org<br>>> http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Scirocco-l mailing list<br>> Scirocco-l@scirocco.org<br>> http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Scirocco-l 
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