How do i tell if struts are bad?
Posted: April 11th, 2003, 5:56 pm
How can you tell if struts are bad? If you press them in with you're hand and they don't come out, are they bad?
Steve
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How do i tell if struts are bad?
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Re: How do i tell if struts are bad?
Posted: April 11th, 2003, 6:00 pm
Yep, that's how.
Steve
Steve
Re: How do i tell if struts are bad?
Posted: April 11th, 2003, 6:02 pm
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by zytariuk:
How can you tell if struts are bad? If you press them in with you're hand and they don't come out, are they bad?<hr></blockquote><p>That's certainly one way...<p>
It's hard to tell by hand, unless something silly like that happens. Because remember that struts only control spring movement, so just because you can compress them with your hand means nothing. It's the SPEED at which you can compress them that's key, and thats impossible to test without testing equipment.
How can you tell if struts are bad? If you press them in with you're hand and they don't come out, are they bad?<hr></blockquote><p>That's certainly one way...<p>
It's hard to tell by hand, unless something silly like that happens. Because remember that struts only control spring movement, so just because you can compress them with your hand means nothing. It's the SPEED at which you can compress them that's key, and thats impossible to test without testing equipment.
Re: How do i tell if struts are bad?
Posted: April 12th, 2003, 12:09 am
so my brand new zx2 s/r struts that I have sitting beside me I shouldn't be able to compress by hand?? Because I most certainly can!
Re: How do i tell if struts are bad?
Posted: April 12th, 2003, 12:35 am
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by MrMX3:
so my brand new zx2 s/r struts that I have sitting beside me I shouldn't be able to compress by hand?? Because I most certainly can!<hr></blockquote><p>If you compress them, do they come back out?
so my brand new zx2 s/r struts that I have sitting beside me I shouldn't be able to compress by hand?? Because I most certainly can!<hr></blockquote><p>If you compress them, do they come back out?
Re: How do i tell if struts are bad?
Posted: April 12th, 2003, 6:34 pm
yeah they do
Re: How do i tell if struts are bad?
Posted: April 12th, 2003, 10:11 pm
then thats what they're supposed to do 