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Old 05-08-2016, 05:10 AM
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...the thing to remember about these "struts" is the top mountings. Once they crack and go soft the handling goes a bit gooey - if anything replace the top mounts before the "struts" but then again age as well as miles is going to have an effect on the damping.

If you look in ye olde FSM there's actually a test with bathroom scales bricks string and paper cups to check if they are still good.

(disclaimer => not all items mentioned are necessarily necessary for this test - "comedy" is being used to encourage reading of said book!)
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