The Roadie wrote:Mrs. Roadie is grateful I didn't have HER deliver the part to the end of the pavement with her Civic.
JamesDowning wrote:I imagine there's something to do with the torque on the threads inducing a high tensile stress 'preload' between the thread and the shaft shoulder. That stress preload in the area plus the impulse load of the shock bottoming out may have just been the last straw. I don't see cyclic stress marks on your picture (could be there, but not visible in the picture), so it could have been a simple tension overload failure.
JamesDowning wrote:If this is truly a racing shock, they may assume that there's a limiting strap on the LCA.