[DMCForum] Re: Door struts
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[DMCForum] Re: Door struts




What's your mailing adddress, VB? I'm going to donate windscreens for
your microphones! :)

Yeah, that's most certainly not normal. And it's definetly not good on
the car. You're gonna crack the fiberglass where the mounts are for
the strut. FWIW, I have a set of Lift-O-Mats from DMC-GG installed 5
years ago. About 2 years into their use, the damn thing started
leaking on me too.

Off hand, it does look like the torsion bars on the car are too tight,
after seeing this on other cars. Struts fail, people don't swap them
out, they just torque up the torsion bars. Try the pre-check from
dmcnews.com, and see what the results there are

http://dmcnews.com/Techsection/dooradjust1.html

Quick question: Why did you swap out struts?

-Robert



--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxx> wrote:
> I have been having this disscusion on the other board....
>
> We are talking about door lift struts.
> My original DMCH struts would open the door softly and come to a
feather
> soft stop.
> When it got cold out they were not strong enough to lift the door
all the
> way.
>
> So I bought a set of John Hervey's which were much more powerfull,
> so much so that they fling the door open and shake the whole car,
and then
> bounce
> back and forth.
> I don't think that this is normal, and I think they should have a
dampener
> to slow
> them down.
>
> Here is a video of the doors in action:
> http://www.bttfstuff.com/MOV05225.MPG
>
> Any thoughts?
> Who uses who's struts and what do you think of them?
> Also, mention the weather conditions they are used in.
>
> - Videobob
> VIN#5278




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