i've been meaning to pull my front stuts off for a while as i believe my tokico hp blues are 'knocking' inside the struts, i fitted them quite a while ago and carnt remember if they come with spacers? i know i didnt fill them with oil to help so i will stick some gear oil in there and make sure the large nut is good and tight down on the strut and use some thread lock as it may have worked lose hence the noise

 

You definitely need some oil in there to keep them cool. They might be shot if you didn't.

 

put a washer in there...

 

IIRC the spacer was for the SA strut tubes not the FB... may have been the other way around though.

 

will pull them apart tomorrow and check, anyone have a washer they could give me the messurements on just incase i do need some

 

normally new front struts do come with a spacer regardless of year..when i bought my kyb's brand new they came with spacer's. i worked on an sa that needed struts but that one dident need the spacer nor did my fb. i think i trashed my spacers..

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Ask Billy, then you'll know for sure....




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pulled these out today and the strut nut (large one) was vertually undone! i chopped 10mm off the top of my coilover coller so i can get acsess to the nut to make sure its up tight, i did have a washer in there and some oil so that was all fine (my dad built these up for me hence why i was unsure!) took it for a quick spin and no knocking so all good!

 

Glad to hear you got it sorted.

 

Oil in the strut housing can help with location as well as heat but you will not "blow" them from not doing this.

-billy

 

does anyone know the size of the strut nut (large one) not the shock nut, i used some big mole grips and only thought after i'd put them back about either getting a large socket or proper spanner for them

 

I use a pipe wrench, simple and effective.

 

I used a pipe wrench as well.