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Subject:Re: Bilstien install question
From:Aaron
Date:Fri, 9 May 2008 07:25:22 -0700

Good to hear as that's how I did it.

Aaron
'85 Westy

On May 8, 2008, at 8:53 PM, Jake Beaulieu wrote:

> On Thu, 8 May 2008 08:20:40 -0700, Aaron <a.robinson.lists@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
>
> "On the front shocks there was a metal "washer" that was around 3/8"
> thick
> that fit on the shaft. When installing the shocks, this piece
> wouldn't fit
> up into the shock protector that was in there, so I left it out. Was
> there
> a reason for the part and did I do it improperly?"
>
> I also installed sans the spacer.  I queeried the list at the time and
> several folks confirmed they also installed the shocks without this
> spacer.  No problems so far.
>
> jake
> 82 westy

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