Presale Bad Luck: Repairing/replacing strut bearing studs? (early A1)

[flaatr at yahoo.com (Euroroc II)]

I think you can smack the studs out with a hammer... They fall out on their 
own on really old strut bearings  :-O

Dunno where you can find another stud but you could just run a bolt up thru 
the holes since the stud is out of the way if you are just trying to get it 
back together.

-Raffi


At 01:12 PM 3/22/2004, David Utley wrote:
>If the strut bearing was out of the car, you could use a thread file on it.
>If it was still in the car, you could use a die on it, but getting the
>alignment on it correct would be a biotch. as there is a slight tilt to its'
>position in the car...  I dunno about replacing the stud, but I would imagine
>it could be done if you were patient enough to try...
>
>HTH a bit...
>
>David Utley
>
>Quoting Jeff Toomasson <area53@validpath.com>:
>
> > Happy Monday, folks!
> >
> > I have a set of early A1 strut bearings installed on my cabby and I had to
> > remove the upper strut stress bar to access something in the engine bay
> > yesterday. But noticed that the threads on the front stud on the passenger
> > side were stripped!!
> >
> > Well, the bottom line is that I don't have the time to figure out how it
> > happened, just how to fix it... Should I take a die to the threads? Can the
> > stud be swapped out by itself? Should I switch out the entire perch (I have
> > an extra set that were destined for my mk1)? Can the reapir be performed
> > with the strut assembly still in the car?
> >
> > many thanks in advance!  Jeff
> >
> >
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