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On 16 Jun 2003 at 21:13, Aaron Clow wrote: > While I had been replacing the fuel hoses in the front > of the car earlier on, I noticed that the shock > absorber on the front passenger side had split so that > there was basically no covering on the piston. The upper covers on the late shocks are plastic. They all seem to be cracked by this time, but most of the shocks still work fine. > So I don't know if this is related to that. I was > jacking up the car and heard a loud "pop" like a tire > being blown out or something. My GUESS is either that you broke a torsion bar, or one of your shocks was frozen up and finally let go. > Apart from the jack where I was raising the car, and > the jack stand on the other side, all the weight of > the front of the car was on that passenger front > wheel. Is it possible something blew in the shock > absorber? Anyone know what that would've sounded like? Shocks can get seized up and "frozen" in place. I would expect them to let go suddenly if you put an unusual load on them. This might be what you heard. I would not expect there to be any other signs of damage, but you could bump the car up and down to see if the shocks are still working correctly. > Also, on the top of the oil cooler under the engine > tin was about 1/2 inch of crud that actually looked > like it might've been some kind of padding at one > point. It's a foam pad that is there to prevent cooling air from "escaping" over the top of the cooler without doing any cooling. The originals are all crumbling by now, but I have replacements that seem to be better than the originals. I say "seem" because I haven't tested any of them for much more than about 15 years. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org