[s-cars] My baby has been scarred - Upper Strut Mount FAILURE!!!!! - UpdatePart I

[Mark Pollan]

Thanks for the sanity check Paul - yes indeed I was referring to the
presence of the washer under the strut mount.  One thing I did not mention
previously was that I could compress the strut piston by hand, so at least
from that 15 second evaluation it does not appear as though the strut may
have seized.

I really would like to get to the actual cause of this failure as this has
me a bit uneasy.

Regards,

Mark



 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Paul Gailus [mailto:gailus at mindspring.com]
Sent:	Monday, November 17, 2003 11:20 PM
To:	Mark Pollan; 'S-Cars (E-mail)'
Subject:	Re: [s-cars] My baby has been scarred - Upper Strut Mount
FAILURE!!!!! - UpdatePart I

I  just want to make sure that we're talking about the same thing
when you referred to the large "washer" in your posting.
The metal cup I was talking about is under the strut mount,
and is over 2 inches in diameter and about an inch deep.
The concave side (opening) of this cup faces down.

The reason I ask is that there is a shallow dished washer clearly
visible on top of the strut mount. I'm just checking to make sure
that you're not referring to this one.

Paul