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Installing struts, removing old bottom spacer?

posted by  zagato64 on  Thu Aug 31 10:00 CST 2006
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Hi,

First post for me here, been lurking for a while.

I own a '93 940Turbo wagon.

I'm installing some tokico struts and ran into trouble. If I try to use the top spacer supplied the strut protrudes out the top of the strut housing so far that I cannot get the gland nut on. If I use only the bottom spacer the gland nut bottoms out and the strut is loose in the housing.

I called tech support and they told me to remove the original spacer in the bottom of my strut tube. The problem I have is I don't see a removable spacer, what I see in the bottom of the strut tube does not appear to be removable at all. I'll attach a picture. Is their something removable that I'm missing here?

Here's a link to a pic of my strut tube from the bottom:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tflint/detail?.dir=199dscd&.dnm=dc07scd.jpg&.src=ph

Thanks in advance for your help,
Tim







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    Installing struts, removing old bottom spacer?

    posted by  rhaire on  Thu Aug 31 13:54 CST 2006
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    Sounds to me like someone thought you were asking about the 240 with it's famous spacer.








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      Installing struts, removing old bottom spacer? 900 1993

      posted by  zagato64 on  Thu Aug 31 15:40 CST 2006
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      Hi rhaire,

      That probably explains it, I couldn't see what the tokico guy was talking about. At least they're sending me some spacers to make it work without removing anything from the strut tube.

      Tim






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