[Shotimes] Strut Tower Modification

[Paul Nimz]

Last time I had the struts off my '97 I opened the strut bearings up,
cleaned out the grit and regreased them.

Paul Nimz
'97 TR
'93 EG mtx


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Prochilo" <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>; <TechSHO@topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:26 AM
Subject: [Shotimes] Strut Tower Modification


> A while back I had posted on my attempt to modify the strut towers
> to decrease negative camber and increase positive caster, needed by
> some us running a modified suspension with the likes of Tokicos and
> Eibachs.  At the time I did the work, I neglected to take pictures
> of the slots I made in the towers so here are two that are quite
> good.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3anev
>
> Couple of things to note.  I marked the location of the strut plates
> with a permanent marker so as not to lose the benefit of the
> alignment I had done.  Also you will note that stamped on the tower
> are some crosshairs that are presumably to note the limits of where
> the strut can be located in the tower.
>
> I had opened these up to try adding the fender washers that Georgy
> Fourchy was suggesting earlier as a quick fix for the sticking
> during the rotation of the struts during steering.  After test
> driving the car (there is still some groaning, I'm concluding that
> one of the strut bearings may be bad, this observation being made
> because when I had the car up and manipulating the bearing itself,
> one was moving more freely than the other.  This will a topic for
> another time as I want to now disassemble the strut assembly and
> inspect all the hardware.
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Carl Prochilo
> 1992 Ultra Red Crimson
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