Boot / Trunk Gas Struts XKC 3893

[trphil]

I've seen gas struts used on the bonnet as well, I believe that some Princesses, Ambassadors and SD1s used them and that they are a straight bolt on if you can find them...

[UKPhilTR7]

Just is interesting to hear. I think I may have a look at the Rimmerbos site as they have just found a NOS of SD1 parts in India. You never know I might be lucky.

[mikehardwick]

Matt - what club are you using? I think you will find a titanium shafted 5 wood will offer the perfect combination of flexibility and keep-uppedness![:D]

Mike

1981 TR7V8 DHC

TSSC N. Yorks A.O.

P.S. Yank from Yorkshire? Tell us more!

[mahanson57]

I reccomend a 7 iron. The club length and lie are just about right.

Thanks for the info on the struts mates!



Yank from Yorkshire

[mahanson57]

Mike...

I proudly claim Yorkshire as an ancestral home. I get that from Hanson family line research. I actually fare from Collinsville, Illinois, and have been in Texas since about 1980 (there was a 7-year sojourn to Santa Maria, California). I bought my original '79 wedge when I got out of school. I also had a Spitfire. I'd work on them all weekend so I would have a car to drive to work that week.

Yank from Yorkshire

[pbee]

The boot lid struts need replacing and new ones are hard to find and seem to be very overpriced , does anyone know if struts from anything else fit, thanks

[Odd]

You can always retrofit the strut from the earliest models. They never go flat, as reliable as steel...

[saabfast]

I'll second that. I fitted the earlier 'mechanical' strut for the same reason and its luxury not to have to carry the length of 2x1 anymore! Don't know of anything else with such short hydraulic struts and I couldn't find anywhere to recharge them in the UK. Pretty easy to fit the old one, top bracket bolts into existing tapped holes and a few tack welds to the rain channel for the bottom one (dims courtesy of jclay a couple of months back).

Alan
Saab 9000 Stg 1
'81 TR7 DHC

[FI Spyder]

Some people have refilled (repressurized) them. I replaced mine. I periodically wipe the chrome shafts down with silicone spray on a clean rag. I don't know if it helps but I haven't replaced them on my 88 Tercel or 91 Integra yet. I don't know what other application may use them but you may take them to a large auto parts store and compare them but may not be worth your time.

Metal slide ones work fine until you get careless closing the trunk when it hasn't transfered latch and you've bent the trunk. Happened to a buddies car.

TR7 Spider - 1978 Spifire - 1976 Spitfire - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra

[Shauniedawn]

Just been messing on with hinges today.

I had a rake around the local breakers yard and found some bonnet struts of a BMW (might have been a 5 series, but didn't pay much attention) that are similar - but about and 11/2" longer - sorry haven't actually measured them. Have had to extend the hinge bracket with a bit of 1/8" plate and turn up some new pivots - but you could get away with bolts I guess.

Drilled out the riveted bot that the hinge hinges on too and welded on a wider collar and a bolt to get rid of the play. Will have to take a few snaps.

Shaun

[Hasbeen]

If Saabfast is right about no one offering strut re-gassing if
I were in the UK, I'd be starting a mobile Strut Re-charging
business. In the Brisbane phone book [covering an area of about a
million people], there are 7 companies offering mobile re-charging,
& they were all too busy to come to me, a bit out of town.

The one I went to was a 4 "man" business, offering a mobile service,
with an office girl, & 3 blokes, including himself with vans, on the
road, dealing mostly with the trade. They would only travel within a
10 Km radius, so I had to take mine in to their small
factory/warehouse. He would do mine while I waited, but only between
7.00AM & 8.30AM.

They were charged in a 6" tubular pressure vessel, [it looked like a
bit of pressure pipe, with screww on ends, & were done with 6
others. The pressure was pumped up to 3000 PSI, & held for 6
minutes. It looked like a licence to print money.

Once you had one going, you would do well, but the franchising
opportunity could make you a fortune.

Hasbeen

[mb4tim]

send them to my house!

-Tim

[tr7inc]

Hi all hope you are all having a lovely easter, just wasnted to ask, someting that i was curious about, can i early style boot stay, work on a later gas struts style TR7?

Said it was a daft question

Catch you all soon

Steve

[Odd]

Yes, you just fit the body bracket to the underside of the rain gutter - and then they are identical.

[tr7inc]

Cheers Odd you are a star, thanks alot i will try that

Steve