As the title says, this is my second one on the same corner in a month. At the beginning of the month, I swapped out the original struts and shocks, which were completely shot, and put in Tokico blues. Two days later, the front left was blown. I then put in another Tokico and it lasted until today. Funny thing is, both rears and the front passenger ones are working great. Any ideas? Somebody told me that I should be pouring oil into the actual strut housing to help cool the strut. Is there any truth to this? Could this be my problem? Oh...and in case you're wondering, yes it's usually just me in the car and I weigh 180lbs and no, I haven't hit any potholes or anything.

 

Yeah...you should have some oil in the housing for cooling the strut. I don't know if that would cause the strut to blow that fast though...

 

What oil would you suggest and how much?

 

10w30 should be fine, I've also heard of people using antifreeze. As long as it dissipates the heat, it should be fine.

 

if you cut your front springs too much (i dont know if you did for lowering) you might be botteming out on corners.

 

He only has RB lowering springs, i really don't see how it could bottom out ....

 

Bad or missing bumpstop.

 

It's on there, maybe this time I'll toss an FC one I have kicking around on there, it's a little larger than the FB one...

 

We did tap the side of the strut housing with a wrench in an attempt to get the original strut to pull out. Perhaps it crimped the housing slightly. Although, the new strut (at this point: struts) slide in easily enough.