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Posted by Dean (more from Dean) on Sat, 6 Apr 2002 11:18:02 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Re: Front Koni Install Question, bill h., Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:24:23
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It is important to clean and degrease the retaining nut threads on the strut and nut, then use loctite blue. The nut is very difficult to get tight amd if is comes loose, there is a risk of damage, lots of clunking, and you have to tear the whole thing apart and do it over again. Take some care as you will be adding antifreeze or oil to the strut tube, so don't contaminate the cleaned threads. Suggest that you clean, as fluid, and clean again if needed before you insert the shock.. with paint removed from top and bottom contact points....see below.

I used a chain wrench. It is a full size vice grip wrench with a length of chain like a strap wrench. You cannot find a pin wrench like the one described in the Koni's cryptogram instructions. I talked to tirerack and koni technical support and they directed me to tool companies that had only short wrenches what would not allow on eto develop much torque.

Something else. If I was doing this over again, I would remove the paint from the bottom of the strut where it bottoms out, and the top of the strut where the retaining nut bears on it. Paint will not take the loads and will extrude and create looseness. Paint should never be in a mechanical compression joint such as this! I also used 50cc of oil, not antifreeze in the strut tube. If I was driving competion over rough roads then perhaps a water based liquid makes sense. The stock shocks had no thermal coupling fluid at all, and for street use, heat is not a problem for the Koni's or the stock shocks.

Seeing as my one strut did come loose, it would have had the paint pounded off. So I can loose sleep about the other one, but I removed and serviced it too, so the second torque should have taken up the slack of the displaced paint. I did this while replacing the mounts, not knowing what was making the noise.. it was not my mounts, but the handling really improved with the new mounts, the old ones were allowing the tops to moved around. so if your front struts start knocking, could be the shock retaining nuts!

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