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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Technical Discussion - Performance / Modify => Topic started by: tonyman246 on August 23, 2012, 11:41:14 PM
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Does anyone know of upgrades/mods to keep the struts from wearing out? It seems like I can only get a season out of the 'lifetime warranty" Monro-matic struts i use in the front of my tracker. I have 2" coils and 2" strut spacers. Are there more heavy duty struts out there? Maybe from a bigger vehicle?
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OME or Bilstein. Both are good, but pricey.
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Does anyone know of upgrades/mods to keep the struts from wearing out? It seems like I can only get a season out of the 'lifetime warranty" Monro-matic struts i use in the front of my tracker. I have 2" coils and 2" strut spacers. Are there more heavy duty struts out there? Maybe from a bigger vehicle?
The heaviest duty struts out there are the Bilsteins, but you need to take care of them if you really want them to last. With the 2" strut spacer you need to add a 1" extension to your bump stop. Otherwise you are slamming into the top of your strut whenever you bottom out and causing extra damage and wear. With the Project Trouble rig we found that about a 2:1 conversion worked well when picking your length of bump stops.
You will also want to add a limiting strap to stop it from topping out. There was another user on here, who's name escapes me, that kept blowing OME struts. He found that the issue was topping out destroyed the seals and lead to premature failure. A set of limiting straps and he quit destroying the strut every year.
If you check out the Zukiworld Challenge builds most of us are running Bilstein struts with limiting straps and haven't destroyed them yet. And we do tend to beat on them.
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My next set are going to be the Bilsteins. Now that I've got the topping and bottoming squared away I've stopped blowing struts. I wonder who that guy is? ;)
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Hmm limiting straps.. that sounds like what i need! Are there any pictures of the limiting strap set up?
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Here is the setup we use on Trouble:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oJN9BhWHedI/S8veragKqWI/AAAAAAAAGsA/i-cvLzvz98I/s512/CIMG0556.JPG)
We later switched to a heavier strap.
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X2 on everything Drone said. Straps and bumps would will save your struts. It's extra $$ and work but way worth it. Heck if we didnt blow them racing in the desert, Wheeling wont be a problem for them at all.