L-Series strut top bearings

subanator · Post by **subanator** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:31 pm

Pulled down my struts to change the springs. Noticed that the bearings in the top mount seem dodgy.
Can you get these out for replacing, as they seem to be retained or something?
They are 6302RS bearings.

Oddly though, there is no seal on the top side, and it attracts a lot of shit from being exposed.

The other thing was that the nut was hell tight, had to borrow a rattle gun from work to get them off. I dont think that they needed that much torque, as the biggest spring washer behind each nut is the coils themselves!

subanator · Post by **subanator** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 12:01 am

Rebuilt struts with new King Springs. Really need new struts, but these will have to wait for now, possibly KYB's. Bearings just cleaned and regreased.
Kings have 5 coils to the original 6, made the reassembly a bit harder to compress.

Dont know what Mr Fuji was thinking when he designed these. They are an improvement over the MY ones, but the bearing top should have been a tapered roller bearing design, not ball race as they are better for thrust load.

I would be interested to what design strut tops (in regards to bearings) do Impreza, Liberty have?

tim_81coupe · Post by **tim_81coupe** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 12:52 am

The same again, a ball race bearing. Funny, I thought exactly the same thing first time I pulled apart a Liberty strut, seems the ball bearings must be able to cope with thrust load somewhat though, you don't hear of many later model strut tops busting....

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:11 am

Don't hear of many Lib's actually going offroad either. Least not in WA

tim_81coupe · Post by **tim_81coupe** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:03 am

Nil at last count, yes.

chriSTIan · Post by **chriSTIan** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:04 pm

3 libs off road in the making...
will turn up when ready.

SuBaRiNo · Post by **SuBaRiNo** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:05 pm

They should be interesting... we drive our cars rather hard... i guess we will find out rather quickly if there are any weak components in them.

Dave

fredsub · Post by **fredsub** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:24 pm

subanator wrote:....

Dont know what Mr Fuji was thinking when he designed these. They are an improvement over the MY ones, but the bearing top should have been a tapered roller bearing design, not ball race as they are better for thrust load.

I would be interested to what design strut tops (in regards to bearings) do Impreza, Liberty have?

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