Evening all,

A few weeks ago I fitted a pair of Bilstein B8 dampers and Eibach 30mm springs to the '6.

When I fitted them I did all the nuts and stuff up nice and tight as you do and everything went well, apart from a small gearbox oil leak when the passenger side driveshaft decided to make a bid for freedom.

Anyway, since I fitted the dampers the car stayed on axle stands because I was doing a few other bits at the same time.

On Sunday I lowered the car back on to its wheels, now this is where i encountered a problem. Now that the full weight of the car is on the front suspension again there is a gap between the top mount nut and the top mount itself. I've tried tightening them up but they don't seem to want to go any tighter, I didn't force them incase I stripped the thread or something.

Obviously this isn't right, so what I want to know is if this was caused by me not lowering the car onto its wheels straight after fitting the dampers, or is it just because the nuts don't want to tighten up because they have nylocked into position?

Should I just completely undo them and try tightening them up properly again or should I replace the nuts?

I hope some of that makes sense, sorry for the long winded explanation.

Any help would be appreciated.

nuts? dont you mean bolts?

I'd take each one out in turn and wind a tap through the top mount threads.

the washers are still present aren't they?

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forgot to refit the washer under the top mount?

or the washer that sits on top of the mount and under the nut?

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If the thread stops before the cup then something's missing from the assembly but if the thread goes all the way down to the cup then the nuts will just needed tightening. That nut can be hard to tighten if the springs aren't compressed fully off the top cup as you're compressing the spring as you tighten it.

If you're sure they aren't cross threaded then just tighten them down. You may need to use a deep offset ring spanner so you can hold the damper rod with a Torx / hex bit.

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Rich

Sounds like a washer is missing from under the nut

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Balls!

Looks like I'll have to take them apart again then, oh joy!

Strange thing is though, I didn't get either of those washers in with the top mounts I bought.

Any idea where I can get them from separately, or do they only come with the top mounts?

Finally got my struts correctly rebuilt today.

If anyone needs to do the same then the part numbers for the bits I was missing are as follows -

Control Cup - 5033 77

Larger Diameter Plain Washer - 6949 11

Smaller Diameter Plain Washer - 6946 19

You will need to order two of everything to do both sides.

yep.

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