Strut Housing Needed

[dickita15]

When I put a new strut in my Rx I have to sand all the paint the koni and then grease it. Don’t know if that would work for you.

[Ron Earp]

I'm not sure either. It is a hard stop and Jeffrey measured it at around 0.01". If it was something like 0.002" or so I could see sanding and beating helping out, but not sure it will here. But, it is something we should try.

[dspillrat]

Several pounds can be saved using the 240 strut tubes......if you aren't using it already......... Honing out may work, if it is clearing the threads...


David

[Ron Earp]

I'm not sure what we have right now, 240, 260, 280 - we don't care too much as the car is going to be overweight no matter what we do. Hard for a 225 lb driver to make weight in one of these things!

We tried honing but can't get enough material off the inside of the tube. We'll go back and look at sanding the hell out of the strut, but not sure that is going to do much. Anyone have any spare strut tubes let us know.

R

[spawpoet]

I'm not sure what we have right now, 240, 260, 280 - we don't care too much as the car is going to be overweight no matter what we do. Hard for a 225 lb driver to make weight in one of these things!

We tried honing but can't get enough material off the inside of the tube. We'll go back and look at sanding the hell out of the strut, but not sure that is going to do much. Anyone have any spare strut tubes let us know.

R

Will the struts you have fit anything but a 260 strut tube? I can't remember if they all use the same cartridges.

[dspillrat]

Building new only comes around once.......................

Looks like you may have an 240 tube on that corner.......Maybe, or just a ton of rust in that tube......

But , anywhay......I have whatever tube you need, but there is quite a bit of savings to be made......compare the doors, struts, etc.......hatch,window, ...hell, call it a 240 and use the smalll bumpers, without those dang shock obsorber bumper anchor weights.....Why not??

[JeffYoung]

I think, but may be wrong, that the 260z used the 72 and up struts.

The "early" 240z strut had less material at the bottom of the tube. We ran into this one time before.

[spawpoet]

Ron, we probably have 240 strut tubes, but don't have 260z units. I wouldn't be able to check until probably Tuesday evening. Let me know if you want me to check, and I'll go through the warehouses.