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Rear Bilsteins and control arm spacers 200 1983

posted by  borowsm on  Thu Apr 11 13:44 CST 2002
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Last night I put on new Bilsteins to replace the well worn rear shocks on my 242Ti. All was fine and dandy except for the spacers between the rear control arm and the shock. With the Bilsteins, they were about 1/4" too long. The only solution I came up with was to trim the spacers to fit using a trusty hacksaw. Now I think maybe I was a little too hasty. Has anyone else encountered this? Everything was snug when it was tightened up, but is there another spacer out there I should have used?

I also re-used the nuts. Should I have replaced them with new ones?

Thanks,
Mark






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