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Re: 4kq trunk shocks

To: "pajono@ctconnect.com" <pajono@ctconnect.com>
Subject: Re: 4kq trunk shocks
From: Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:21:54 -0400
CC: "Audi list (E-mail)" <quattro@audifans.com>
Organization: HUMAN Speakers
References: <01BECD0A.A46063A0.pajono@ctconnect.com>
Reply-To: one@humanspeakers.com
Sender: owner-quattro@audifans.com

> I just bought new trunk shocks, and they're so stiff I can compress them
> enough to mount them. Any ideas or technique I'm missing? I clipped one end
> onto the car frame and am trying to compress the shock just enough to snap
> it onto the open trunk lid, but it's not happening.

just btdt - try pushing the trunk lid open, quite hard, to get that
extra 1/8-1/4" or so you need.  If it needs more than that, they must be
the wrong struts.

-- 
Huw Powell

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82 Audi Coupe; 84 4kq; 85 Coupe GT

References:
- 4kq trunk shocks
  - From: PN <pajono@ctconnect.com>

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