My Ocianic Blue Ur restoration

[Tractor Dave]

Unlucky! I bet they are hard to find with that blue sun strip

Trick of the light. It's green. Apparently available.

[SteveH]

Unlucky! I bet they are hard to find with that blue sun strip

[Tractor Dave]

Windscreen removal did not go to plan.
Someone had used panel bond inside the seal. It was never going to end well.



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[Lago Blue]

Thanks to all for the above discussion around the Koni install instructions etc., I'm going to add some of that into the Bilstein into MacP Strut thread, as at its root this addresses a shared threat with sensible alternate counter-measures. You may be interested to know I did find freeze/crush damage to one of my stock original Boge's which was so distorted, it was also difficult to remove from the strut. Having neither a drain-hole or oil-fill, the strut-tube had on its own become water-filled; of which, correct; didn't take much. My guess is it entered via the 6-sided opening in the OEM strut-tube cap-nut. Of course this wasn't apparent at the time, or fatal till winter and is interesting in that it is a little known variation on "Frozen Strut Syndrome" that in this case only (a conventional, sealed twin-tube type damper) does require freezing temperatures.

[jbrentd]

Nice work Dave!

newsh - that blue avant on boleros

[Tractor Dave]

After a break of about 10 days, I am back at it.
Underneath is 80% cleaned off.



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[Tractor Dave]

[newsh]

Cheers John. We need to see some nice pics of your Ur at times like this

Here you go!








And since I washed it yesterday

[Tractor Dave]

Ps. If anyone is buying Koni shocks, Winpart in Holland supplied mine at a very good price. Koni shocks are made in Holland

[steve briance]

It is a cooling issue - the antifreeze helps heat bridge the gap between the shock insert and the strut body. Heat passes through a fluid better than air. I remember hearing about this year's and years ago, it was a Ford factory tip to help their mk2 escort rally cars stop boiling their dampers!

[Tractor Dave]

Cheers John. We need to see some nice pics of your Ur at times like this

[newsh]

I have Billies on the Ur

On the coupe the Konis are set 1/2 turn from full soft on the rear and 1 turn from full soft on the front

[Tractor Dave]

I wonder why they recommend that? Maybe cooling?

Possible, or to prevent corrosion?

How did you set yours up John? I want a comfortable ride if possible.

[Tractor Dave]

Antifreeze.

I will go with antifreeze then. Cheers

[newsh]

I wonder why they recommend that? Maybe cooling?