The rear captive nut is readily accessible, the front ones are
buried under the large rubber in the top spring seat. I haven't
tried to pull that off yet. I'll take a look today.
Since this is on a race/rally car, I'm not all that keen on this solution
as I'd presume it wouldn't locate the shock quite so well under the
extreme braking loads it will see.
I'm going down to the bearing place today to talk about helicoils
of any other type of insert.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
To: Peter <nosimport@mailbag.com>
Cc: Mike Gigante <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>; spridgets@autox.team.net
<spridgets@autox.team.net>; mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, September 21, 1998 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: Shocks
>Well, if you want to become a DPO, you could stick the stock bolt through
>the oversized captive nut and put a regular nut behind it. It is
>accessible from behind, right?
>Ulix
>
>
>On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Peter wrote:
>
>> Listers,
>> Mike Gigante emailed me that he is struggling with the bolt that Monty
>> successfully removed from his front Sprite shock (good work, Monty). This
>> is the rear-most of the 3 bolts that mount a front shock. As discussed
>> previously that bolt hole needs to have a sleeve. Apparently the PO had
>> aleady replaced and over-sized the captive nut. Any suggestions on the
best
>> way to go back to the 3/8" size so that the sleeve remains in the shock?
I
>> don't have a sub-frame or car to look at at the moment. Thanks for any
>> assistance.
>> Cheers Peter C
>> ---------------------
>> Mike wrote:
>> >I have a small problem though - the PO had obviously stripped
>> >then captured nut in the shock mount "ears" on the RH side, rearmost
>> >nut. A larger nut and bolt (5/8 head instead of 9/16 head) have been
used
>> >and the rear mounting hol on the shock has been enlarged to take
>> >the larger bolt.
>> >
>> >I see there is a sleeve in the shock body, so I'd guess that I can't
just
>> >drill out the hole in the shock body (that you sent me) to take the
larger
>> >bolt. Any suggestions? I was thinking of a helicoil or something like
>> >it if I can get one in the right thread sizes.
>> >
>> >Mike
>> >
>>
>>
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>
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