Strut bearing replacement

[hartsiga at msu.edu (Andy Hartsig)]

Well what I ended up doing is just marking the 2 bolts that hold the strut 
to the knuckle. took both out and just pulled the whole strut off in one 
piece. Put the strut in the vice and compressed the spring and gunned the 
nut off with the impact. It turns out that the PO had put some aftermarket 
struts on there that use larger diameter shafts than factory. I a pair of 
replacement bearings w/ bumpstops, dust boots and the spacer tube from 
german autoparts. Turns out all I could use was the bearings and the spacer 
tubes. Put the whole schbang back together and back on the car and tried to 
get the camber back to where it was before. I might as well have the 
alignment checked anyway ;)

I've got a question for you guru's of all things rocco.  Is it normal for 
there to be a little play in the strut bearings?   Meaning if you hold the 
strut stationary out of the car you can just slightly jiggle the bearing up 
and down? It seems like it should be tight but I've never done anything with 
struts before.  Did the PO leave out a part possibly and therefore I'm 
screwed cause I just put the damn thing back together?

ok suppose I should get some rest so I can battle the rocco again in the 
morning!

Andy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <marc_scirocco@sympatico.ca>
To: "raveracer77" <raveracer77@yahoo.ca>; <haygood@myway.com>; 
<roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>; <hartsiga@msu.edu>
Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Strut bearing replacement


Cool trick. Thanks for the info!!

Marc

>
> De: "raveracer77" <raveracer77@yahoo.ca>
> Date: 2006/11/24 ven. PM 04:02:21 GMT-05:00
> ?: <haygood@myway.com>,  <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>,
> <hartsiga@msu.edu>
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Objet: Re: Strut bearing replacement
>
>
>     Along the same lines I just went and spent the $8 bought a cheapo 22mm 
> open ended / boxed wrench and walked into a local shop that I knew had a 
> torch and had them heat it up and bend the boxed end up so that I had my 
> own offset wrench.  This way it didn't cost ma a fortune from a VW vender 
> for the specialty tool.
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