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Next Phase - Strut Cleanup
All,
Based on looking inside one of my struts, I have the following issues:
A] grease in the bottom of the strut tube
B] rubber bits and part of the rubber bushing from the lower insert broke away, and is laying in the bottom of the strut tube
C] desire to repack grease way with new grease.
Answers are:
A and B] I used a wire coat hanger with a hook bent in the end to pull up the rubber bushing. Then sprayed brake cleaner as a degreaser below the the grease way. The rolled 3 sheets of paper towel inside the modified hook of the wire coat hanger [rolled the hook around the paper towel so that the towel couldn't pull out of the wire loop no matter what] , and used this to clean out the inside of the strut tube.
C] based on various posts, decided to use high temperature bearing grease [higher melting point than white lithium] to repack grease way.
Nest steps are to repack the grease way, and install the strut.
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