[Shotimes] Struts replaced. Wow!!

[Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com]

You're right Don.  But the original post was concerning a sagging rear
end on the car.  Springs cause that, not struts.  I know you realize that,
just clarifying, as Zen Ron did also.  : )


Mike Wojton
Toledo, Ohio

-'95 Green MTX  3/01-1/03
   ShoShop y-pipe

-'95 White MTX
   '96 Brake Upgrade

Who'll watch the Watchmen?




shotimes-admin@autox.team.net wrote on 07/31/2003 10:39:34 AM:

> OK, with a nod to the "cam bearing" issue, here goes:
> 
> The struts DO hold up the car, in combination with the springs.
> 
> Take out the struts, and the car falls to the ground!  :)
> 
> Not like my 66 Grand prix where you CAN remove the shocks 
> and the car will still sit perfectly level!  But it will 
> bounce like a buckboard from the wild west.
> 
> In any car with a strut, the strut is an integral part of 
> the suspension and thus DOES hold the car up.  The spring 
> perch is part of every strut.
> 
> What does NOT hold the car up, is the strut INSERT or the 
> piston/shock portion inside the strut, although in a strut, 
> even THAT portion does help locate the suspension, thus that 
> is why the strut shaft is so much bigger than a regular shock.
> 
> I may not have used all the 100% correct terms, but I think 
> you can get the drift.
> 
> There, everyone discuss and have fun!
> 
> Don Mallinson
> Stirrin' the pot!   :)
> 
> > 
> >>The Struts do not hold up the car     The Struts do not hold up the 
car 
> > 
> > The
> > 
> >>Struts do not hold up the car The Struts do not hold up the car The 
> > 
> > Struts
> > 
> >>do not hold up the car The Struts do not hold up the car The Struts do 

> > 
> > not
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