I simply don't believe this ...............

[JohnW]

Yes we know Bob and Eileen - but you said he had them rebuilt. Who rebuilt them if it was not Bob?

You understood my words exactly. Bob took them to a urethane or whatever specialist in Perth and that man mixed and poured an appropriate brew, in his judgement. I saw the finished product and it looked good. They are back in use, so you could call Bob and ask him direct I'd suggest.

Cheers

 

[pugrambo]

Excellent, that's a very familiar name .... I think I'll have met him at some point

'Rambo, if you look I have attached photos of the strut mount. As you can see you have the plate that bolts to the car and the center section the strut bolts into.... I'm just staggered how insane the design is. You have the entire weight of the car bearing against the bit of rubber... If the rubber fails the strut will go straight through the cars bonnet. Every bump you hit, every speed bump you go over, every impact and vibration of the wheel assembly is transmitted to that one little bit of rubber that's always tensioned by the weigth of the car. If the rubber tears, or the bond fails it's all over.

I just backed GB's car out of the shed and took a quick video of the stresses that bit of rubber is under just by turning the steering wheel

the cylinder ports down through the shaft does it ?

the mount can be improved upon and can be made a lifetime piece

i'll make some drawings up but it's not rocket science

 

[DoubleChevron]

the cylinder ports down through the shaft does it ?

the mount can be improved upon and can be made a lifetime piece

i'll make some drawings up but it's not rocket science

Did you watch the video, that is the sort of stresses applied to it just turning the steering wheel when stationary. You **can't** beef it up or those stresses would then be transmitted to the cars structure trying to buckle it instead of the rubber.

seeya,
Shane L.

 

[pugrambo]

Did you watch the video, that is the sort of stresses applied to it just turning the steering wheel when stationary. You **can't** beef it up or those stresses would then be transmitted to the cars structure trying to buckle it instead of the rubber.

seeya,
Shane L.

you need to move the stress to elsewhere

seriously it can be done and yes you basically beef or make the mount solid but mount the mount on rubber

i can do some drawings up but you can work out where i'm coming from

suspensions have been rubber mounted for years, all you are doing is making or modifying a mount so it's solid and mounting it on rubber

the only thing is the car may sit a little higher on low and on high but for normal ride height you have height adjusters so you can re set them to normal and your off and running and a life time of no more strut through bonnet worries

 

[pugrambo]

Did you watch the video, that is the sort of stresses applied to it just turning the steering wheel when stationary. You **can't** beef it up or those stresses would then be transmitted to the cars structure trying to buckle it instead of the rubber.

seeya,
Shane L.

i watched the video, not al ot different from the stresses any other car has going through it's top mount except the XM is all rubber so it's going to look a lot worse

 

[Roger Wilkinson]

You have to feed the hydraulic fluid into the top of the strut and mount the sphere close to it.

Roger

 

[JohnW]

Excellent, that's a very familiar name .... I think I'll have met him at some point

He was one of the team that sorted out the Chevron Downunder workshop in Perth a few years back. That or a Cit-In.

CHeers