Bilstein install (HD struts)

[Chris@Rvengeperformance]

Only necessary if you plan to lower your car more than 1.5"

Recently they made it extremely difficult to cut the bumpstops so it may not be as easy as these instructions describes !


























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HOW TO: Cut down Bilstein internal bumpstops - 3000GT/Stealth International Message Center

HOLY SHIT I ran into a tight one tonight. I had to replace one of my front struts and needed to trim the bumpstops. I had to tighten the bottom disk part like holy hell in my vice. Then I had to use a allen wrench and stuck 2 foot of pipe on it and finally I got it loose.

FYI the advance auto parts brand allen wrenches are pretty damn stout. It didn't bend at all with 2 feet of leverage and a hard pull.

[J. Fast]

Gotta love Loctite 263. Stuff sure is strong. So strong it breaks tools and strips fasteners. I bent the first foot of my 4 foot .120" wall cheater bar when I sleeved a 3/8socket wrench on a run of half a dozen 1/2" steel plate anchors adhered with 263. I was literally hanging on the bar and doing a pull ups and bouncing till it popped. That was only 1/2" of threads adhered too!

Anyway, I've never seen a B4 cartridge. Inside the sleeve is just the bumpstops and then another encapsulated pill for the valve body?

[Chris@Rvengeperformance]

Gotta love Loctite 263. Stuff sure is strong. So strong it breaks tools and strips fasteners. I bent the first foot of my 4 foot .120" wall cheater bar when I sleeved a 3/8socket wrench on a run of half a dozen 1/2" steel plate anchors adhered with 263. I was literally hanging on the bar and doing a pull ups and bouncing till it popped. That was only 1/2" of threads adhered too!

Anyway, I've never seen a B4 cartridge. Inside the sleeve is just the bumpstops and then another encapsulated pill for the valve body?

yeah the pics above are just what mine looked like. the silver part is the dampner body, the yellow sleeve just adapts thee dampner to the stock strut body and reduces side load on the strut rod I would think. It is a questionably small strut rod in my non technical opinion, but I'm sure they did the engineering on it.

It is literally pointless that they started using loctite on this. It must been done only to keep us out. The strut rod gets a nut on it after it is installed in the stock strut body anyway, it couldn't go anywhere even if that bottom plate wasn't crimped to the tube.

[J. Fast]

Looks like a chicken bone. Do you have a stock ECS strut you can side by side the rod diameter with?

[Chris@Rvengeperformance]

Looks like a chicken bone. Do you have a stock ECS strut you can side by side the rod diameter with?

no I'm afraid not, but I'd guess it at nearly half the size of stock.

[mb3000]

Forest, are you running the coilover sleeves or factory replacement springs?

[Chris@Rvengeperformance]

just tein s techs. Plenty low for me. Ride is still good, but controlled.

[importrunner]

So to notclutter the forum with simple questions I will ask here. I need new struts. I have a 92 TT, my eds has never worked since I bought my car 8 years ago. I'm finally ready to do something about it. I have twin s-techs and was looking at bilstiens but for a little more I could go cxracing coilovers. The vehicle is just a weekend driver looking for a solid spirited ride through the twistys.

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