please help! Strut Tops.

[taffy]

Kings......fair play good company and glad someone cares rust will not beat us!

[taffy]

Hello again guys....could you tell me if u could use s1 no hydroactive strut tops on a s2 hydroactive? Iv jus bought some lol...

[Hell Razor5543]

I am not very knowledgeable on the hydro pnuematic system, but I do not believe the strut tops are interchangeable. The pipes for a normal system are 3.5mm, but the ones for hydractive are 10mm. The other thing is that (from what I have read) the S2 strut tops are stronger than the S1 (to overcome the failure issue), and the pipework is different to compensate. Going from S1 to S2 is do-able as you can get spacers.

[citroenxm]

The top will fit in place BUT however, as you will find the pipe attachment is a completely different size!!

So unless your VERY clever you can drill the hole out and tap it to suit the 10mm feed pipe. But I do not know the drill size or tap size you will need....

I had a passenger one here ready to fit... But ive sold it to someone else now.. Its a Series 2 Exclusive top, which Im going to fit to a Series One VSX... I have the spacer too..

If you go down the drill route after finding out the Tap and Drill size, you may not need a spacer if you get the drilling correctly done depth wise..

[CitroJim]

Taffy, unless you are a skilled engineer then I’d entrust the drilling and tapping to an engineering firm. I can't see it costing much as to an engineer it's a nice, straightforward job.

Take him and old strut top so he can see exactly how to form the seat at the correct depth...

[taffy]

ah guys i just posted without looking here! thank you... yes i will have to find an engineer...i bought nsf strut top off ebay that the link on here was and it said 10mm....its just been delivered and its 3.5 and in a very sorry state...85 quid and its very rusty rubber is brittle plastic folded away and rust up under the cone...im angry but i gota do some thing soon or the cars gona suffer bad...just out of intrest have ppls struts gone at speed and been able to fix ok as im on 100 mile round trip a day and im very nervous...thanks again for ur help

[citroenxm]

when it goes, it modifes the bonnet a little...

They useually go while parked, but then that could of been luck for people who it has happened too..

Can you actually SEE through the base plate past the sphere top?? Have a look at my Estate blog, and see HOW bad they can get...

Proper bad strut TOP!!

Have a look at the strut top swap pics, further down!!

[taffy]

wow some great pics nice to see! yea mine are worse then that id say its 2/3 rusted right through and its bent up towards the lhm tank and can clearly see the tyre..two bolts thats it rest has worn away...ebay strut top jus phoned him...he sent the wrong one and hasnt got the one i want...he reacons the thread is 10mm and hydroactive is 17mm thread...does this sound right?
thanks

[taffy]

kings would laugh at me if i sent them it i think theres virtually no base plate!

[taffy]

im gona have to use an s1 im exhausted tryin to find these things how can we get in contact with saipa maybe they will have some

[citroenxm]

Ahhhh he is thinking spanner size to undo the pipe!! the large ones are 17mm spanner for 10mm pipe and small is 8 or 10mm spanner for 3.5mm pipe!! i bet that's his thinking!

[taffy]

well im gona find out the sirze today so il have an answer hopefully

[taffy]

]im confused lol....what is the difference in s1 tops and s2....i will post a pic lol ok how do u upload pics?

[qprdude]

There's probably instructions on the site somewhere but basically:- Open an account with "Photobucket" which is a free photo storage and editing site. . Once you have an account, save the picture you want to post in "My Pictures" on your computer from your camera or phone. Open your photobucket page and sign in. Click the "upload" button and navigate to "My Pictures", double click on the required photo and it will upload to your photobucket page. Once there, click on the photo, then copy the IMG code right side of the page, then paste it into your post on the forum.

Sounds complicated but it's not really, once you get the account set up. Remember your log on details because you will probably use it a lot when you get going.

[taffy]

can u tell me if this has worked?