biggreen96 Chris Caylor Junior Moderator Location: Moscow ID/Pullman WA Join Date: 07/30/2009 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 251 Rally Car: Old Legacy- not very stock. |
So after another 2 hours of dicking with heat and liquids and going up and down at a snails pace I used the band saw instead. I knew it was just the top cm that was gunked, so I cut that much off. That dirt had become concrete, i had to chip it out of the threads with a point. There was no way it was getting past those threads like it was.
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DG_Rally Dave Grenwis Ultra Moderator Location: Minneapolis, MN Join Date: 08/16/2012 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 125 Rally Car: '92 VW Golf |
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biggreen96 Chris Caylor Junior Moderator Location: Moscow ID/Pullman WA Join Date: 07/30/2009 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 251 Rally Car: Old Legacy- not very stock. |
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Towona Tony P Mod Moderator Location: Alberta, Canada Join Date: 08/21/2010 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 149 Rally Car: MK2 Golf |
So JVL, I'm assuming by propane, you mean heating the perch up ya?
I use painter's tape to keep the exposed threads a little less gunked up, but I haven't found anything that works all that well. I absolutely dread pulling my suspenders apart, which leads me to ignoring them, then they rust up a bit and are even harder to take apart. Maybe covering the whole damn thing in a length rubber inner tube? Runamuck Rally |
Replaced constantly or serviced every event? I believe there are a few of your customers that service their suspension every event. Which I think is a pretty good idea.
Ha! That's not even close at all. If you really knew me, you would see that I do not like spending other people's money or my own.
Huh, that's never been the case in my experience. Not in mountain bikes, motocross bikes, circle track cars, road racing cars, or my street car with 10k miles on the coil-over kit I used (Bilstein sleeves with Acme style threads). Sure, they get crud jammed in them from time to time, but they are much easier to clean out. Usually a quick back and forth a few times will do. The seats that you supply funnel and hold dirt above the threads (which have 10mm of threads for a seat that's 64mm tall... so that's 54mm of space for dirt/fines to get packed into). The shorter and vastly inferior seats also have about 10mm of threads, but lack the funnel on top to hold the fines. Much easier to clean out when needed, but that's in my experience... not yours.
That's definitely one opinion of me.
There's more to just thread engagement when it comes to thread design wrt load bearing and contamination. I work in an industry that deals with impacted fines in threads all the time. Testing and real world applications has shown that loose threads will actually work better with fines and dirt contamination with no discernible difference in load bearing reduction.
Lolz
See above. I've been around racing and working on race vehicles for most of my life. Haven't had much of an issue with the normal spring seats. I've cut my fair share of JVAB ones off of struts and shocks after a few days of fighting them. I also know of one person who just slid a Bilstein sleeve over the tube, and has had much less hassle.
Not surprised here. O-ring glands and seals can be a pain to get right, especially if they need to seal around threads that are ~1.5 mm tall. O-ring seals require a very specific amount of compression to work. This varies if it's a stationary seal, sliding seal, or rotating seal.
That's a pretty good idea. I've wrapped inner tubes around the threads on shock bodies before. Helps prevent dings from gravel spray and seals out the grit (motocross and mountain bikes).
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Cosworth Paulinho Ferreira Elite Moderator Location: Charlotte, NC Join Date: 03/15/2007 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 721 Rally Car: Honda Civic |
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Josh Wimpey Josh Wimpey Infallible Moderator Location: VA Join Date: 12/27/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 649 Rally Car: Sneak the Golf |
Alwsasy wondered if anyone had tried something like these: http://www.polyperformance.com/Poly-Performance-Coil-Wrap
If you have tire clearance, they might be useful. ____________________________________________________________- One. Class -- 2WD www.quantumrallysport.com http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Quantum-Rally-Sport/281129179600?ref=nf |
Josh Wimpey Josh Wimpey Infallible Moderator Location: VA Join Date: 12/27/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 649 Rally Car: Sneak the Golf |
Better variety of options here:
http://www.kartek.com/parts-categories/spring-shock-accessories.html ____________________________________________________________- One. Class -- 2WD www.quantumrallysport.com http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Quantum-Rally-Sport/281129179600?ref=nf |
I've used them to keep the seals much happier in the shocks, and they definitely worked for that. Went from seeping shafts after 2-weekends of racing to rebuilding them once a season (which may not have been a good idea, probably should have been rebuilt more often). I'm surprised the duct tape held up between the coils! |
Mad Matt F Matt Follett Mega Moderator Location: La Belle Province, Montreal Join Date: 03/13/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 645 Rally Car: Don't Laugh, the Justy is Fun! |
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