Help me undertand early Sachs insert please
#1
Race Car
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Help me undertand early Sachs insert please
Please help me understand what I'm dealing with here.
Subject: early strut insert (SACHS BOGE).
Situation: I'm looking to stiffen my ride a bit so today I started the process of replacing the standard inserts with sport inserts. I have 8 month old Sachs front struts on my car that I was planning on selling to another hombre on this forum, but am questioning the ethics of that now.
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I remove the spring hat & spring. Undo the strut cartridge cap easily with no drama. Didn't even have to touch the alignment cam-bolts! Woohoo!
Then I pull the strut insert straight up out of the tube and to my surpise the rod & piston and tube came out of the tube separately with the hydraulic fluid coming out.
That seems wrong to me, as the advertisements for the strut inserts show them together, I am assuming the buyer doesn't have to assembly & "bleed" them. Correct?
Is this normal?
Subject: early strut insert (SACHS BOGE).
Situation: I'm looking to stiffen my ride a bit so today I started the process of replacing the standard inserts with sport inserts. I have 8 month old Sachs front struts on my car that I was planning on selling to another hombre on this forum, but am questioning the ethics of that now.
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I remove the spring hat & spring. Undo the strut cartridge cap easily with no drama. Didn't even have to touch the alignment cam-bolts! Woohoo!
Then I pull the strut insert straight up out of the tube and to my surpise the rod & piston and tube came out of the tube separately with the hydraulic fluid coming out.
That seems wrong to me, as the advertisements for the strut inserts show them together, I am assuming the buyer doesn't have to assembly & "bleed" them. Correct?
Is this normal?
Last edited by Noahs944; 12-11-2016 at 07:35 PM.
#2
Not normal. The inserts are one piece, no bleeding. Just pour some oil into the tube first for heat transfer.
Are you sure those are Sachs? I installed Super Touring inserts in my 83 and they were black and welded together (I believe, it was 3 1/2 years ago when I did them).
Are you sure those are Sachs? I installed Super Touring inserts in my 83 and they were black and welded together (I believe, it was 3 1/2 years ago when I did them).
Last edited by marc abrams; 12-11-2016 at 06:05 PM.
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Nordschleife Master
Not normal. The inserts are one piece, no bleeding. Just pour some oil into the tube first for heat transfer...Are you sure those are Sachs? I installed Super Touring inserts in my 83 and they were black and welded together (I believe, it was 3 1/2 years ago when I did them).
I can only assume if you buy the complete Sachs strut it is build without an insert, when it comes time to rebuild Sachs supplies a sealed insert to drop in.