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Re: Strut inserts -- STILL clunking![200/84] posted by L K Tucker on
Friday, 13 July 2001, at 8:41 p.m.
/// "Huh,"... OK, again. There is a small steel washer you have not listed as used. It does not, repeat not, come with the hardware in a new cartridge kit. It does look like it would come with new hardware so many people throw it away.
If you will measure the thickness of the bearing at the top of the strut tower then compare it to the journal on the end of the cartridge piston rod, the journal is longer. This means that when you tighten the friction nut on the threaded end of the cartridge piston rod, you are not tight on the bearing. There is maybe 1/8 inch, or less space for the piston rod to bang up and down. Stick a feeler into that space and see if you can get a bent wire feeler under the friction nut. If you take the friction nut off you should see the top of the journal sticking above the bearing. This is not detailed in Bently.
I have seen this washer called an engineering washer, a shaft spacer, and other names. I made one after I could not replace it except from Volvo. There are asorted kits of them and I am sure someone carries it in stock. I found the assortment at Shoup, a farm equipment dealer. (Tractors, combines, hay bailers, etc.)