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Re: oil or no when installing bilsteins?? (archive)
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Posted by Rob S. on July 16, 2000 at 13:55:29:

In Reply to: Re: oil or no when installing bilsteins?? posted by Dwight H. on July 16, 2000 at 13:36:22:

I have read (forget where of course) that basically dwight is correct, use a little motor oil to help transfer heat to housings. There is a huge amount of energy being dissipated by your front shocks, and the resulting heat has to go somewhere...

putting in a set of bilsteins in my front struts. reading the archives there are two different opinions. one says to put oil in the strut before you slide in the bilstein. the second says no oil with bilsteins. a seperate concern is if you don't use oil then how do you prevent the shock from ultimately rusting to the inside the strut? that's the way the old ones were on my struts and they were a bear to get out.


Did you get any directions with the set? If not, you can use oil or 100% anti-freeze. I believe the theory is that the oil/anti-freeze transfers the heat to the strut housing and prevents corrosion as you noted.
Anyway, what could it hurt?




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