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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?
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).
Last edited by marc abrams; 12-11-2016 at 06:05 PM.
... I have 8 month old Sachs front struts on my car....
Originally Posted by marc abrams
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 thought this was normal, mine were the same. I had Sachs Super Touring struts fitted by a po and when I bought new inserts for them the inserts were sealed units that you drop in, but there wasn't an insert in the old strut, it was like yours.
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.
12-11-2016, 05:36 PM
Help me undertand early Sachs insert please
