Can you test coilovers to see if they need to be rebuilt?
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Can you test coilovers to see if they need to be rebuilt?
Ok I bought some Tein RA's less than 4 months ago with the intention of tracking my car. I have been in the process for the past couple of months of putting it together and getting it tuned to do just this. I was on the highway this past Sunday and I hit one of those dips that you run across occasionally that caused the car to compress and rebound. I was doing about 70 and it actually almost caused the rear tires to bounce slightly off the ground because I could hear the revs rise. After getting closer to home I noticed that the car was a bit sloppy and I thought it was on the drivers side front. At home I pushed down on that corner of the car and there was a weezing from the shock.
Could this mean that I need that shock rebuilt? Should I send all of them off to be checked because the same thing happened to all 4 due to the dip? Where do I send them?(Tein has no numbers on their site) A lot of questions but very few answers. I am a bit upset with the durability of these shocks if this is the case. I have less than 400 miles on them.
P.S. I know some of you might say I told you so about the coilovers but I truly only intend to track this car and only occasionally drive it on the street. I assume that either way the coilovers should hold up to some amount of abuse. Please help me solve this problem. I hope to have a short vid with sound up tomorrow of what the wheez sounds like. None of the other corners sound that way.
Could this mean that I need that shock rebuilt? Should I send all of them off to be checked because the same thing happened to all 4 due to the dip? Where do I send them?(Tein has no numbers on their site) A lot of questions but very few answers. I am a bit upset with the durability of these shocks if this is the case. I have less than 400 miles on them.
P.S. I know some of you might say I told you so about the coilovers but I truly only intend to track this car and only occasionally drive it on the street. I assume that either way the coilovers should hold up to some amount of abuse. Please help me solve this problem. I hope to have a short vid with sound up tomorrow of what the wheez sounds like. None of the other corners sound that way.
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Look at the damper body carefully for leaks. That model coilover uses aluminum damper casing -- a VERY bad idea for a street driven car -- aluminum monotube, yikes!
http://www.tein.com/overhaul.html
While you are having Tein rebuild them (if that's the case and it probably is), I would get some reasonable rate springs and have the dampers revalved for them, if necessary. Running 900/900 springs on the track will be a humbling, nose-pointed-the-wrong-way experience...
http://www.tein.com/overhaul.html
While you are having Tein rebuild them (if that's the case and it probably is), I would get some reasonable rate springs and have the dampers revalved for them, if necessary. Running 900/900 springs on the track will be a humbling, nose-pointed-the-wrong-way experience...
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Just to bring this thread back from the dead and see if there are any more opinions. Here is a videow/sound of the offending corner of the car when compressed. None of the other corners make any sound much less the squeek that this one does. http://www.3rdgenrx7.com/downloads/joel/I3010006.asf Right click and save as. It is not large just a good representation of what I heard.
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that sounds like a rubber suspension piece on the car. or the rubber mount at the top of the strut tower. definatley not the shocks. check lower/upper ball joints and steering linkage.
that sounds like a rubber suspension piece on the car. or the rubber mount at the top of the strut tower. definatley not the shocks. check lower/upper ball joints and steering linkage.
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