[urq] rear bumper shock

[Brandon Rogers]

I bought the correct die at Sears - I want to say M10x1.o or M8x1.0.  I took
the shock in and tried a few til I found the right one.

Brandon
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From: <Louis-Alain_Richard at computerhorizons.com>
To: <groupbq at insight.rr.com>; <jimmiller at audifans.com>
Cc: <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 7:32 AM
Subject: RE: [urq] rear bumper shock


> Gregg and Jim,
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> The thread size is metric 9x1.5 or something similar. When I looked to
> find a proper die, it would have cost me 50$ to have one custom-ordered.
> No professionnal tool store got it in stock.
> So the cheap solution was to destroy the inner threads in the strut body
> and push-in the rod. Worked for both bumpers on 2 cars so far.
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> Louis-Alain
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> "Gregg K" <groupbq at insight.rr.com>
> Sent by: urq-bounces at audifans.com
> 2004-12-03 02:24
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> Jim,
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> The front and rear bumper shocks can be compressed without destroying
> anything.  Remove the locknut on the shock piston rod and unscrew the
> shock
> housing.  Take a die (I forget what size) and cut more threads on the
> piston
> rod.  This will allow you to thread the shock housing farther down on the
> rod, essentially shortening the unit, and moving the bumper closer to the
> body.  As I recall, the rear bumper can be adjusted to be nearly flush
> with
> the apron, making it a fairly good match for the front Euro bumper.
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> Cheers,
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> Gregg Kellenberger
> '83 Mars
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> From: Jim Miller <jimmiller at insightbb.com>
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> Has anyone had experience with compressing the rear bumper shocks to
> achieve
> that Euro look on an '83 UrQ ? I have the parts off the car. The front end
> sports the Euro conversion so I need the rear to match. Any BTDT?
> Thanks,
> Jim
> Gobi-1
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