RE: [DML] door strut mount bending?!

["Marc A. Levy" <malevy@xxxx>]

Check the archives on this one.. Sometime in July there was a discussion on the DML about this.

The door struts that DMCH sells have a longer body (and shorter rod) than the stock (and the ones the other vendors sell) which can possibly bend and even break the lower ball mount.

I noticed this again at the Fall Foliage tour last weekend. Cars with the DMCH struts had bent lower mounts, one was even broken and loose (VERY dangerous!) On that particular car, the screw on ball stud had somehow loosened up and was on it's "last thread" making the piston rod even longer. Whenwe lifted the door up a bit to pop the strut off (to thread the stud back on) it fell apart!

Rick Gendreau did a good evaluation of the door struts. Contact him for the results.

Here was the message that DMCH (James) posted to the DML in response to this problem. Now that I re-read it, I laugh at the "we've sold more than 1500 of these struts, and
have had three or four instances where the additional length was a problem"because I have seen at least 6 with my own eyes. I laugh, but its not funny. This is a serious problem and could result in personal injury.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/message/26857

There were a number of other messages about the same time that are worth reading.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. C. Cameron Putsch [mailto:putsch.1@xxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:51 AM
> To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DML] door strut mount bending?!
> 
> 
> I was wondering if anyone of you have noticed that the ball 
> mount for your door strut that mounts to the roof is bending 
> away from the strut under pressure. Is this a very bad thing, 
> meaning it will break in the future. Should I replace 
> something or modify it? 
> 
> Casey at putsch.1@xxxx