fron Bilstein cartrage was full of water!

[Fred Munro]

The lower end of the boot is secured by a plastic insert that fits inside
the boot and clips over the OEM shock retaining nut. If the Bilsteins use a
different retaining nut, the OEM boot clip may not fit.

Fred Munro
'94 S4


-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Eyvind Spangen
Sent: November 11, 2002 1:46 PM
To: Konstantin Bogach
Cc: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: fron Bilstein cartrage was full of water!


On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:35:29 -0500, you wrote:

>Hm... I did not get anything in the box with shock that can be used for
mounting rubber boot.  And I
>don't see any ring inside the spring to mount top of the boot.  It is just
stpring seat and the
>spring itself.  Am I blind?

Probably only my bad explanation.. (I don't have english as my native
language)

You know the upper spring seat? The rubber boot is supposed to sit on
the outside of the egde in the "hole", stretching it a bit so it won't
fall down. In addition, you should have a plastic ring below the shock
retaining nut. The lower part should be stretched onto this. That way,
the whole shock and retaining nut should sit inside the boot, sealed..


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E. Spangen
'86 Audi 100 2.2 CS quattro