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Re: Front strut replacement 2000 Aero
Posted by compaqted (more from compaqted) on Fri, 9 Apr 2004 06:58:31
In Reply to: Front strut replacement 2000 Aero, Tom L, Thu, 8 Apr 2004 18:44:43
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The front strut assembly is just that... an assembly of a spring, a strut insert, and a top bearing. The whole assembly bolts onto the body's strut tower at the top and the suspension's ball joint at the bottom.
The only difference between the old style shock absorber with a separate spring and the strut assembly is that the strut combines both the spring and absorber into one unit.
The part that fails in the strut is the insert. Sometimes it is called the shock insert, sometimes the shock absorber, sometimes the shock insert assembly. It is basically a gas filled absorber with a welded on mounting pad for the coil spring. It does what a regular shock absorber does, and it fits inside the coil spring as part of the whole assembly.
To replace it, you remove the whole strut assembly, disassemble the assembly (remove the top bearing, remove the coil spring, you're left with the strut insert), put the spring on the new insert, put the bearing on top, tighten it all down, and bolt the assembly back in. You need a spring compressor to perform this operation.
Some shops don't like to do that. They prefer to just buy the whole assembly, unbolt the old one, throw it away, then bolt in a new one. This saves them lots of time, but also costs the car's owner a lot more money, and wastes the spring and the top bearing.
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