Struts Strip Down
Today I spent a bit of time working on stripping down and cleaning the struts. There was not much to do on them initially. I used some spring compressors and took everything apart. The compressors slipped on me at one point and the spring jumped up and nearly got me ;).
With everything apart, I cleaned all the dirt and grim off of them. I tested out each of the shock absorbers and found that one was okay, but the other was only coming part the way back out. On talking with Dad, I decided that it would be best to just replace them both whilst I had it all apart.
We attempted to take off the gland nut, but to no avail. We put penetrene on it and let it soak, made the length of the lever as long as we could, but try as we might they weren’t going to budge. One thing of concern was that one of the gland nuts was only on by a few threads. We decided that I should take the struts to Pedders and get them to crack the gland nut for me, before I did some damage to either the struts or, more likely, us!