Postby Hasbeen » 04 Jun 2009 04:18
I used to make a lot of money with exchange reconditioned struts for
Cortinas, & Triumph 2000, the first cars to be fitted with them in
Oz. These early ones DID NOT have boots on them, & many had worn, &
scored shafts, in not too many miles. I even rebuilt some for the
local Ford dealer, when they had become scored, & started leaking in
less than 6,000 miles.
Warrenties were short, & so was the life of the struts, without dust
protection. They payed for my Brabham.
When it comes to bump stops, you blokes must have very stiff after
market springs, or you drive like kitty cats.
The bump stops are to stop the front tyre hitting the inner guard,
when the thing is depressing the outside spring under cornering
load, not the strut bottoming.
With my stock 7, with a very good spension, in as new condition, I
only had to get a little bit carried away in my impersonation of
Fangio, Stirling Moss, or Shoemaker, [for you young ones], for my
front tyres to come into contact with the vertical stiffening bit,
under the inner guard, under cornering load.
The bump stops I had fitted were not long enough. A real bummer, I
hate doing things twice, but I had to fit longer ones.
Three of the four 7s I have owned have done this, when bought, due
to rotted bump stops. Even with its stiff springs, & heavy anti roll
bar, the 8 did it, when we were silly enough to reuse some stock
rubber bump stops, whick looked OK.
Stick them in, they are not too much load to carry.
Hasbeen
