RE: blown strut?

[Tim Ebling <tim@surreal.com>]

OR if you push down on the fender and it doesn't move hardly at all, then
you have a FROZEN strut which is even worse (imo) than a "blown" strut.  I
drove around for almost a year on a frozen strut.  Talk about stiff
suspension :)

-tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wm. Josiah Erikson [mailto:josiah@gsinet.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 10:44 AM
> To: Bret Bolton
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: blown strut?
> 
> 
> Bounce the four corners of the car. The fender should go down 
> when you push on
> it, then back up and stay there. No bouncing. If it goes 
> down... up, down,
> slowly back up, then you have a slightly blown strut insert. 
> If it goes down...
> up, down, up, down... etc, then you have a VERY blown strut 
> insert. Check all
> four corners of the car... all should be the same (except 
> that in the rear you
> have shocks, not strut inserts, just for accuracy).
>     -Josiah
> 
> Bret Bolton wrote:
> 
> >
> > just a real quick question:
> >
> > what would arocco with a blown strut drive like?
> >
> > this beast is sick.
> >
> > -bret
> >
> > --
> > To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to 
> scirocco-L-request@scirocco.org,
> > with your request (subscribe, unsubscribe) in the BODY of 
> the message.
> 
> 
> --
> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to 
> scirocco-L-request@scirocco.org,
> with your request (subscribe, unsubscribe) in the BODY of the message.
> 

--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to scirocco-L-request@scirocco.org,
with your request (subscribe, unsubscribe) in the BODY of the message.