Got these today from BusDepot...2 rights ($45.00 to my door). They hold up
my gate nicely and it is quite easy to put down and up. Stays put at every
position I stopped it at until less than a foot open. The gate has a Yakima
roof bike rack on it, with fork mount on top bar and small
rear-tire-gutter+clip on the bottom bar. Removing circlips from the
strut-ends to remove them from the hatch, with a small flat blade screw
driver, then prying the wide circlip (on the gate end)up with the s-driver
and the old units popped off. Reverse order for installation of new struts
was easy. Entire process took 10 minutes. Just a note: the "old" ones are
obviously OE and the right one (more highly charged) was almost impossible
to compress when off the gate, just as the new rights were. The left was
quite a bit easier to compress and so both are probably not drastically
different from their stock condition. With the added weight of the rack I
have needed to do something. When I have put the bike on the gate, if it
stays open I'll let you know ;>).By the way, I held the gate open with one
of those expanding windshield snow scrapers.
Bob Stevens
'91 Westy

Happy is he who bears a god within.
-- Louis Pasteur
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