Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Front MacPherson struts overhaul

I've overhauled the front MacPherson struts. My Mazda has now new springs, upper mountings, thrust bearings, bound stoppers and dust covers. It was a little tricky to compress the spring - it has only four coils and it turned out to be impossible to compress the spring enough while it was attached to the spring only. Fortunately, attaching one end of the spring compressor to the strout solved the problem.
 



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Slovakia

Slovakia, 08-12.09.2025, 1500 km  08.09.2025 Mo     We took off early and ate breakfast in Bialobrzegi. We took a highway. This part is the ...