Hello all.
Last summer I had a couple instances where I almost lost control of my B
during "chatterbump" type road conditions. The car would just drift to the
left during these episodes, then as soon as I was off the rough surface all
was fine. My gut instinct told me shocks, but I had no way of checking as the
car was being my emergency transportation while another vehicle was down. I
also had a clunk up front so thought it might be a bad bushing.
Well, finally this weekend while tearing the front end down for an engine swap
I found the culprit. the shock has what I will call a "dead" zone in it. The
shock arm will move a good 1"+ without any resistance. then it will get thick
like it should. this tells me there is air in the system.
What do I do to get rid of this?? Drain the entire shock, then refill it?
are there any "tricks" or procedures you folks could recommend? My haynes
manual tells me nothing..
Larry
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