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Strut Mounts - Good, Bad or just ugly.
Posted by Joel [Email] (more from Joel) on Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:08:22
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Due to longtime broken coil springs I changed the struts and coil springs. During the course of wrenching one of the strut mount bearings separated so I ended up getting a whole mount.
After putting the wheels back on the ground, and tightening the bolts up top, I still get a bit of noise when hitting bigger bumps, etc in the wheel with the original mount.
So opening the hood and doing the usual pressing up and down of the front quarters I see that I can get the strut with the old mount to travel up and down a good 1". The other side not much, maybe a 1/16". I'm thinking with that much travel the strut "tops out" and gives me the noise yet.
So is that excessive motion for a strut mount? I've done a fair bit of research and most strut mount issues are perpendicular play due to a bad bearing not vertical motion.
There wasn't anything visible when I changing the spring and it went back together as expected. But it looks like the whole center section of the mount is separated and the pressure of the coil and the smaller diameter of the top of the mount is what holds it together.
It isn't the nut being too loose because I can clearly see the center of the mount move up and down and not just the top of strut.
My assumption is yes that it is bad but I'd like a definitive on the amount of travel if any. Seems to me the strut and coil would take the motion.
Thats enough.
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