I had a spare strut tube I was planning on fitting after I replaced the shock absorber.
So I took it along to a small local garage to ask if they could free off the top cap for me. They placed it in a vice and used a pipe wrench on the aftermarket cap.
It freed off with little effort, no heat was needed on it.
So I return home to remove the shock only to find it won't come out. Taking a closer look revealed that the tube is no longer concentric and is clamping the shock tube inside. Unsurprisingly the threads are damaged in the flattened area. It's hard to say if the damage occurred in as I looked on or not, I'd like to think it didn't but that's a moot point anyway.
Is there any hope of this being salvaged? I dare say the flat could be heated to extract the shock tube, but is it possible to restore it's roundness and the threads?
Has anyone had any experience of this before?
Thanks for any tips on how I might go about fixing this. I don't have a camera to hand to share a pic.
Thanks in advance.
So I took it along to a small local garage to ask if they could free off the top cap for me. They placed it in a vice and used a pipe wrench on the aftermarket cap.
It freed off with little effort, no heat was needed on it.
So I return home to remove the shock only to find it won't come out. Taking a closer look revealed that the tube is no longer concentric and is clamping the shock tube inside. Unsurprisingly the threads are damaged in the flattened area. It's hard to say if the damage occurred in as I looked on or not, I'd like to think it didn't but that's a moot point anyway.
Is there any hope of this being salvaged? I dare say the flat could be heated to extract the shock tube, but is it possible to restore it's roundness and the threads?
Has anyone had any experience of this before?
Thanks for any tips on how I might go about fixing this. I don't have a camera to hand to share a pic.
Thanks in advance.
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