[s-cars] upper strut mounts

[Tom Green]

Yes, they are part of the stock suspension, Teddy.  They cup over the  
top of the stock suspension bump stop.  It appears that some shops  
found them easy to miss since
the bump stop is omitted when using bilstein inserts.  There is a bump  
stop internally in the bilstein tube.

Tom

On May 9, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Theodore Chen wrote:

> Are those load washers present in the stock setup?  I have a set of  
> Bilsteins that will replace the stock shocks.  Do I need to go find  
> those load washers, too?
>
> From: Rob Pecsar <rpecsar at pacbell.net>
> To: Tom Green <trgreen at comcast.net>
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2009 9:27:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] upper strut mounts
>
> I destroyed my upper strut mount as well, and found that I should have
> installed load washers(443-412-147) under the strut mount when I
> switched to the Bilstein/Eibach suspension setup. The washers are
> slightly conical and help distribute the load across the rubber of the
> strut mount under full suspenstion travel. No problem since and
> suspension clunking is gone when I hit an uphill transtion.
>
> HTH,
>
> Rob
>
> Tom Green wrote:
>
> >I want something more than hype from Meyle before I purchase their
> >products.  The promises of high quality in the strut mounts, lower
> >control arm bushings and "new technology" coolant reservoirs has
> >proven to be hype only in the past for products that have been
> >demonstrated to be inferior.
> >
> >If you are expecting satisfactory service from $12 JLGermany upper
> >strut mounts, I think you need to review this decision process.  I
> >don't have all the answers but most of
> >the "bargain" stuff hitting the market is no bargain.
> >
> >Tom
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>The ringmeister wrote:
> >>I guess I should also clarify that the upper mounts on my car now
> >>that are failing were not branded as Meyle anywhere, neither on the
> >>box nor the casting itself.  I believe they were sold under the "JL
> >>Germany" brand..... Otherwise known as "Creative China LTD" 8^).
> >>
> >>Supposedly the Meyle rep was very helpful in diagnosing the reason
> >>for the premature failure of their mount and they made a run of
> >>updated mounts with improved rubber/metal bonding and a handful of
> >>folks on the UrS forums on AW at the time were using them and
> >>observed marked improvement over previous product from Meyle.  I
> >>think this was about 6-8 months ago?
> >>
> >>Wylie Bean