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General => The garage => Topic started by: Carl! on 25 November 2013, 22:15

Title: Front strut movement
Post by: Carl! on 25 November 2013, 22:15

After fitting my Joms I had to re-higher one of the struts and re tighten a month or so later. Anyway I've done this and it has happened again, even though I was mindful and tightened the sh!t out of it, or so I thought! Any tips on sorting this out? I proper tightened it so i'm presuming it must have got some lubricant or something on the strut?! Anyone had similar and sorted it?!

Title: Re: Front strut movement
Post by: dom on 25 November 2013, 22:53

Do you mean the adjusters are working their way down the threads?

Title: Re: Front strut movement
Post by: Carl! on 26 November 2013, 18:39

No the actual strut has dropped further through the holder. Im going to qdjust it again and tighten it but wondered if it was maybe a common occurance and a way of stopping it.

Title: Re: Front strut movement
Post by: Wayne on 26 November 2013, 20:21

Replace the pinch bolts with new, then torque to spec.

Title: Re: Front strut movement
Post by: Carl! on 26 November 2013, 22:20

Will give it a go. Thanks. Edit@ any ideas on size of the bolt? Had a search but as you can tell with my attempt at explaining i'm not massively up on this sort of thing!