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Rear dampener installation
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John Currier
Bellingham, WA, USA   USA
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Working on a 52 TD and clearly I am missing something very basic. We pulled the dampeners in the Fall because one was leaking. Turned out that one had a screw with a broken gasket so that problem was easily solved. Getting them back in is proving to be an unanticipated challenge. I can't get the bolt/stud on the arm of the dampener back into the hole it came out of. I had to tap them out but they had been in there for decades so that isn't unexpected. Any tips or tricks to pass on?

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tdmidget Scott P
Tucson, USA   USA
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Dampener?

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Mikelead Mike Leadbeater
York, Yorks, UK   GBR
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maybe just ease the hole and stud with some fine emery cloth?

I assume you mean the rubber bushed link rod? not the shocker arm?

Mike

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GB3 George B
Winter Haven, USA   USA
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Girling or Armstrong shocks? Totally different links/arms. Need to know which one to advise. George

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Mikelead Mike Leadbeater
York, Yorks, UK   GBR
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maybe when” tapping them out “ you have bellended the thread, you will need to file the end back to round and possibly recover the thread using a die-nut.

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John Currier
Bellingham, WA, USA   USA
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That's unlikely but still an excellent suggestion. I will look at the bolts closely next weekend. Thank you!

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John Currier
Bellingham, WA, USA   USA
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These are Armstrong

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John Currier
Bellingham, WA, USA   USA
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I will give that a shot. Thank you!

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GB3 George B
Winter Haven, USA   USA
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Not exactly sure which piece you removed. The Armstrong links are factory made one piece assemblies and can’t be disassembled. If you removed a bolt/pin from the rubber you may have destroyed the link. If the bolt end won’t go into the arm, it must be really trashed. Picture would help. George

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John Currier
Bellingham, WA, USA   USA
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George, I will post pics this weekend. This isn't my car, otherwise I would head out to the garage and snap pics right now. I am going to try squeezing it in with a C clamp. It came out with very light tapping so it must go back in somehow!

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John Currier
Bellingham, WA, USA   USA
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So it turns out that I am just a dumbass. The bolt wouldn't fit because I was trying to put it in the wrong hole. Lesson learned, take pics before removing anything.

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Bruce Cunha
placerville, CA, USA   USA
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1950 MG TD
1967 MG MGB GT
We have all been there


Bruce E. Cunha

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Mikelead Mike Leadbeater
York, Yorks, UK   GBR
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Ha!

I call it a “senior moment “, which occur at ever- increasing frequency .

Mike

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Mervo Merv Hyde
Peregian Beach, Queensland, Australia   AUS
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As my wife informs me ...


Merv Hyde
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