Removing a strut insert

[Tony Hoffman]

Can you get at the top of it at all? If it's protruding even 1/4", you can
get a big pipe wrench on it and turn it. Once it turns a little, you are
home free. BTDT Plenty.

You can put a hole in the bottom, but you will want to fill it up, as you
need oil in the housing for the dissapation of heat from the strut.

Tony

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Radek <radek at istar.ca> wrote:

> Hi Guys!
> It's a 90Q, 1988 - the shock (front) has probably been there for the last
> 23 years!  So far, managed to undo the big nut holding the insert in place
> (channel locks and some help from a pneumatic hammer), but the shock is
> virtually welded inside the housing.  Bentley says to put a nut on the
> piston rod, hold it with a wrench and hammer it out - ha ha!  No amount of
> pounding will make it budge.  Right now it's soaking in PB Blater overnight.
> Any tricks you can suggest - I was thinking of drilling a hole in the
> bottom to put more PB Blaster, but that would put a permanent hole in the
> housing - probably not a good thing.  Ideas?
> TIA
> Radek
> Ottawa, Canada.
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