elephant strut top monoball Q

[jbrinkley]

I'm getting some bad noises from the front and so I'm starting at the top of the list and working down to the rack. I have a couple thousand miles on the monoballs without porblems or noises. but in working down my list of possible culprits I findd that jimmying the steering wheel with the car on the ground, the damper piston, top nut, conical washer, and lock washer, spin correspondingly with steering wheel travel, almost all the way from lock to lock.
so my question is this, with proper torque on everything on top (no I didn't impact top nut) should the damper piston spin 360 as easily as it does now? ( two foot torque wrench)
I'll add that i've marked the connections to gauge movement and no movement since install. These are bilstein HD for boge.
At some point the top nut will bottom out on the piston.
I'm ten minutes and a beer away from impacting the **** out of it.
Is the piston supose to turn while you're driving or not? That's the point

[Chuck Moreland]

Not to worry Jerry. With monoballs, the top of the strut will rotate with steering input. It is the monoball bearing that is rotating.

This does not happen with factory rubber bushings, which force the rotation to happen in the shock body. This is the reason why the steering may feel lighter with monoballs installed.

[jbrinkley]

thank you, I was hoping you'd tell me that.