Re: strut tool??

["Bill" <billfree@interlynx.net>]

Ron
Get a grip, you do not need special tools to replace front strut
cartridges on a Audi. I do mention that my two are both my Audis are
Quattro's. If you need more info on R & R reply. 
Regards Bill

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> From: Ron Angert <rangert@ntas1.rdp.vt.edu>
> To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Cc: rangert@vt.edu
> Subject: strut tool??
> Date: November 14, 1996 12:27 PM
> 
> car is '88 5KS - not Q, not T.
> 
> 	Thanks to this list I have the source to buy a strut tool.  When I
> called the company a lady there told me that it was a 22mm special
> wrench.
> 
> Could someone tell me the function of this thing, and if someone has one
> that no longer needs it I am willing to buy it.  I was quoted $36 plus
> $4 shipping.  Does this sound right?
> 
> As I understand it this tool allows changing the strut cartridges
> withour taking the front end apart, weight on wheels.  Will this method
> allow one to put in new strut boots too?
> 
> Is this something that will require alignment afterwards?