any one snap a shaft inside a easytreet strut yet?
i have been wondering why my car has been rididng funny for a little while, today i noticed some negitive camber that hasnt always been there...
and wouldnt ya know it... broken airstrut... BAH
so yup thats 2 cars.. and 2 i cant drive
the 02 snapped a timing chain and i think i bent a bunch of valves...
and now the 03 has a serious suspention issue....
time for a beer i guess
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yea did it snap the thread off the top of the strut where it screws into the upper mount, Ive heard of this problem, It comes from turning while the car is low if not all the way down, it directs more force on the threads at the top and they break off.
dude that sucks. the only problem i have had is this hard chunky stuff in one of my bags. hope i dont snap one. i feel your pain
they re designed the struts recently... so i shot them an email
we'll see what they say..
my orig. crappy goldline springs that i got are still on my ex's cav and she put 60k+ miles on them
so lets just say if i can only expect 5k miles out of bags i will not be replacing these with bags
tein or gravanna might be hearing from me shortly
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dang that does suck. i hope i don't have these kind of problems.. cuz right now my car is a daily driver..
if i remember from esb you can purchase new struts through easystreet and i think they are 95 a piece
That 5Kmi doesn't mean much in itself. It really depends on how low you were for those miles.At 2" lower than stock that 5 really equals about 15. At 2.5 it's more like 25. It's your laying it out and driving on that constantly it's 50 or more. Driving low wears stuff out.
That sucks, how much of PSI do u usually run in front and rear?
I usually drive 30 in front and 40 in rear without any wheel gap. I had no problems. Also I agree its always decent ride for being that low for me.
Talk to Jim @ Easystreet. Hes the man!
You're running higher than I do. I dont see you abusing the suspension. lol
Jim should be able to take care of it for you.
Good luck!
i have no choice... if i ran with no wheelgap i would tear my bumper off and cut all my tires LOL
not to mention thats WHY i have air...
pick it up to go
drop it when its parked
i know i didnt hit any major bumps to cause it, cause well i'm SURE i would have tacoed a wheel at the same time so it has to be a defect...
ill see if they respond tommorrow and go from there
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OUCH DUDE ! While i drove with 20 PSI on front and 30 PSI on rear i have no problem just a bit rubbed on tires when i hit a bumps and also i just installed drift front bumper now i have to dive at 30 PSI on front and 40 PSI on rear with my 16's.
Yeah PHEWES is right about JIm he is a da man for sure while i got my wheel fly off and the wheel hit my bag I already knew it was my fault but jim replace me for FREE he is the man ..... i supposed to pay $54.00 USD mean in CDN is $90 buck and saving my $100 - $ 200 on shipping
Hopefully u will have LUCKY LIKE ME ! keep it up man
1-800-248-0892 and ask to speak with jim. he will hook you up
i know that phone number all to well hahaha
His extention is 252 btw.
EXESIVE FIRE (Andy Brooks) wrote:i have no choice... if i ran with no wheelgap i would tear my bumper off and cut all my tires LOL
not to mention thats WHY i have air...
pick it up to go
drop it when its parked
i know i didnt hit any major bumps to cause it, cause well i'm SURE i would have tacoed a wheel at the same time so it has to be a defect...
ill see if they respond tommorrow and go from there
at least im not the only one that has to run higher, with 19's 8" wide and the streetfire kit i have to run at around 65 front 70 in rear to not have any rubbing issues or risk damaging the front end.
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60 fronts n 50 rears usually!
1st 1st gen on air.....
i'm having the same problem too on both fronts, when i dive at 45 psi up front i'm hearing some clunking and also when i'm dumping the air out of the front the front it feels like something in the strut won't let the go all the way down and i too talk to jim and waiting for him to come back on monday. This sucks cause my car is a DD
it's a good thing it's still under warrenty for me, there i also a couple to time i left it all the way up and in the morning the car it's is at the height that i left it but when i check the guage the bags are at 0 psi
