Written by Tacq June 05 2002 at 15:12.
All the struts is now in pieces for a rehaul and we've figured out how to enhance them. At Emmaboda we noticed a noise from the front chassis, so we decided to take it apart when we got home. It came to light that there were some worn out parts here, to begin with two top mounts had to be replaced. Then we saw that the flapping we heard at Emmaboda came down to the shocks sitting loose in the struts, this was corrected by fabricating an insertion that made the shock sit correctly. Last but not least, it appeared that one of the front wheel bearings were completely exhausted. FAG who made these once upon a time were consulted and found that they did not have anything similar in their range. The bearing was sent to Neo whose grandfather works at SKF, but they did not have anything that resembled it. Anders Carlsson in Borås was contacted, he would like to hear from us when we solved the problem because he had no good solution. He offered, however, to lend out a strut. Instead we got a sleeve made that we could squeeze a urquattro stock bearing into, then push the sleeve into the strut.
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