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Gas Strut Installation

The installation of gas struts on a Spitfire bonnet. No idea where these gas struts actually came from, extract what you want from the info on the side of them. They're about 27-28 inches long, installation is by way of 2 simple small L brackets. I painted them orange/red to make them look a little more like they should be there...
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Colin 19-Jun-2006 20:29
What have I done wrong?? I fitted some gas struts from (I think) a Rover 416 tail gate. They appeared at first to work perfectly but now I have noticed some problems and had to remove them. The first thing I noticed was that the rear of the mudguards was cutting into the bulkhead. I thought that the gas struts must have been pushing the mudguards back slightly and was going to 'trim off'(!) a bit of them. But ....... before I had the chance to do this I noticed that the paint on the front edge of the driver's door was chipped and being damaged! When I looked carefully I realised what was happening. The pressure of the closed struts was pushing the bonnet back towards the rear of the car and fouling the door front edges. You can tell by looking that the panel gaps are 'not right' when the struts are fitted but O K with them removed. The bonnet ‘cones’ are already adjusted as far forward as possible so moving these is not an option.
The struts are 'Lift O Matic' with the numbers BHE 38025 and 791148 on them. They are 27.5" in length and mounted as in your setup. Do you think they could be too 'powerful'?- each one seems to need a hell of a lot of pressure to compress it slightly - really it's a two person operation. Any ideas? Has anyone else had similar problems?
Colin
Tim Brown 26-Sep-2003 15:07
Good job! I used a gas strut from a 1984 chevet hatch .... Works great !
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