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KYB rear shock issue!; Only a year old!
Topic Started: Feb 28 2016, 11:41 AM (1,664 Views)
Otey13
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myredvert
Mar 4 2016, 09:35 PM
While it's unfortunate that aftermarket struts and mounts come with incorrect hardware that people might be tempted to use instead of re-using the correct hardware, the actual physical failure was still not caused by KYB or Taiwan or the Boogie Man.

The failure occurred because the correct hardware was not installed on the bottom of the mount.

When I did my struts and mounts last week, I tossed all the incorrect hardware that came with them back in the boxes. I also tossed my shiny new KYB bellows back in their boxes so they could be sent back to Rock Auto. Then I cleaned up everything as best I could, repainted the metal pieces, then reinstalled all the correct original oem hardware (except the nuts).
:gp What sucks is I should have known better. I think the shinny new hardware got to me :lol
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I can understand how you feel. I was tempted by the shiny... but thankfully only for a couple of seconds before I realized it could not do what the original hardware was designed to do.

Since you have the dust covers on the Konis, I would also clean them up real well and install them. The KYB bellows leave a gap the size of the Grand Canyon between it and the strut - large enough for a Titanic sized iceberg to form up in there in the witner, and a medium sized rat to move in and chew on the bumper and dust cover and piston rod every day for lunch all spring, summer, and fall.

Either could be bad...

The cool thing is that after some soap and water and careful scrubbing, even my front bellows looked good as new with absolutely none of the cracking I had expected to find in 25 year old soft rubber parts exposed to the elements.
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Otey13
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Myredvert, I hear you :lol I'm not too fond of the bellows either. The Koni shocks pictured are nice. But that set are a little tired. I cleaned up the oem hardware,mounts and put them on the KYB's with the cut springs. I like the stance and ride of the car. The one issue I did have was finding a cupped washer big enough to fit the bump stop, the oem was not big enough for my liking. So I ran down to midas, they have a place where they toss the old shocks and hardware, I took one of the stops with me for fit. I got lucky right on the top of the pile were a set of Rancho shocks, pulled all the hardware off and the washers fit perfect. Took them home cleaned them up and put the shocks back together. They seem very solid. We will see :thumb
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