Strut help please

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Have you tried getting in touch with Bilstein at all?

[mikepeters1983]

Have you tried getting in touch with Bilstein at all?

No not yet. I got to get a number and find time to call. busy trying to get ready for this move, and now having to worry about the wild fire burning south like 10 miles working its way this way

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1-704-663-7563 West Coast

1-858-386-5900 East Coast

[mikepeters1983]

So I just thought of something I think that Mike Barton told me, but I am going to try to see what I can do to see it the truck was in a front end accident. If it was maybe something was not done right and might be off causing it to wear faster. That was the side with a bad wheel hub when I first got it, plus had a wheel hub go out in PA, plus the 2 blown shocks so far. I did notice that I have new camber adjustment plates, new headlights, and other new end parts on the front. Ball joints, tire rods, and yea a few others. So that might be what has happened. I don't know yet though. I need to get things looked at and need to have my Vin ran to see if that might be it.

[fishsticks]

So that might be what has happened.

All signs point to yes.

[mikepeters1983]

So that might be what has happened.

All signs point to yes.

So the Vin guy on here, if he runs it will it bring up if it was in anything like that?

[fishsticks]

So the Vin guy on here, if he runs it will it bring up if it was in anything like that?

VIN stuff is for options and recall campaigns.... you need CarFax.

[mikepeters1983]

So the Vin guy on here, if he runs it will it bring up if it was in anything like that?

VIN stuff is for options and recall campaigns.... you need CarFax.

Damn now thats one more thing that I got to pay for lol

[The Roadie]

I just bought a used car and paid for too many carfaxes. I’ll PM you a deal if you're interested.

[mikepeters1983]

I just bought a used car and paid for too many carfaxes. I’ll PM you a deal if you're interested.

Sure I cam look and see what ya got

[sburruss7]

I just experienced the same thing my strut on my drivers side broke about and inch below the nut and I have only wheeled it once about 2 months ago all I have are 88 springs bds 2inch kit a blisten hd struts I called blisten and they said there was nothing that they could do since I altered the suspension

[Trail X]

Do you have any pictures of the failure? I'd like to try to determine a cause. There doesn't seem to be any reason for failure that close to the threads because the loads should only be simple tensile and compression. Is there some way a bending load is being passed to the strut piston?

[sburruss7]

Im going to pull it down today after work and take some pictures and try and figure out what might be causing it to break according to car fax the truck has never been in an accident hopefully I can rule that out

[mikepeters1983]

This is what happened to mine, I think I lost the top part of it some where, but as it sites right now I aint running it on my driver side anymore, and *knock on wood" aint had no problems so far.

[Trail X]

This is what happened to mine, I think I lost the top part of it some where, but as it sites right now I aint running it on my driver side anymore, and *knock on wood" aint had no problems so far.

What do you have on that side now?

[mikepeters1983]

The one that PEP BOYS sells, I would have to go look. I dont really remember. All I know is I dont think El Paso likes my truck. Still got a lot of little things to fix starting with the 4WD first.

[Trail X]

That's got to be a straight-up tensile stress failure. There can't be any bending loads that high in the thread. I'm beginning to wonder if Bilstein just had a bad batch that went out the door. It would be interesting to compare the build dates from the 3 failed units so far. I'd almost bet they are close.

[mikepeters1983]

That's got to be a straight-up tensile stress failure. There can't be any bending loads that high in the thread. I'm beginning to wonder if Bilstein just had a bad batch that went out the door. It would be interesting to compare the build dates from the 3 failed units so far. I'd almost bet they are close.

Well the first one that I ordered was back while I was deployed in Afghan, I would say Nov or Dec time frame, then the second one was the end of April this year. But for me it was only the Driver side that I was having problems with. The passenger side aint had nothing wrong with *knock n wood*

[bartonmd]

Maybe over-torqued the second one, and weakened the threads? I know it was put on while you were traveling... Did whoever did it put the top nut on with an impact?

Mik

[mikepeters1983]

Maybe over-torqued the second one, and weakened the threads? I know it was put on while you were traveling... Did whoever did it put the top nut on with an impact?

Mik

I put the last one that broke on my self with a wrench in my buddies drive way. I dont think that I over torqued it at all. I just think that I am having bad luck with this truck.