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| Don’t ya just hate it when your rubber breaks Paralizer - 4 years ago |
Hey a little levity is what we all need these days, but I digress. A friend of mine put in a new set of brakes on my trusty steed recently while I was out of the country. He sent me this picture of the rubber that surrounds the struts on my 06, PASM equipped, 987S. Is it possible to just replace the rubber surrounds or will I need to swap out the entire strut? I don’t notice any degradation in handling in either mode of the PASM settings.
Paralizer 06 Boxster S Atlas Grey/Black/Black
Paralizer 06 Boxster S Atlas Grey/Black/Black
Hey Larry
Those are the rubber stops to prevent a full bottom-out .
They deteriorate with time.
To replace them you’ll need to pull the strut, as you can only insert from the shock’s top after removing the top hat.
Most people never replace them after they deteriorate and as I said before they only work when you completely bottom-out the travel.
Happy Boxstering
Pedro
Pedro Bonilla
1998 Boxster 986 - 311,000+ miles: [www.PedrosGarage.com]
PCA National Club Racing Scrutineer - PCA National HPDE Instructor - PCA Technical Committee (Boxster/Cayman)
Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar
"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" ... Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in "LeMans"
"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older"... Mario Andretti
"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose" ... Ayrton Senna
Those are the rubber stops to prevent a full bottom-out .
They deteriorate with time.
To replace them you’ll need to pull the strut, as you can only insert from the shock’s top after removing the top hat.
Most people never replace them after they deteriorate and as I said before they only work when you completely bottom-out the travel.
Happy Boxstering
Pedro
Pedro Bonilla
1998 Boxster 986 - 311,000+ miles: [www.PedrosGarage.com]
PCA National Club Racing Scrutineer - PCA National HPDE Instructor - PCA Technical Committee (Boxster/Cayman)
Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar
"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" ... Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in "LeMans"
"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older"... Mario Andretti
"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose" ... Ayrton Senna
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