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landyman Ash:

--- Quote from: "Bulli" ---dont get a decarbon one, the shockers seem fine but the damper i had seized solid in under a month. no visible damage . Need to do some work and had to remove it with a drift...solid, not impressed
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Hate de-carbon stuff.  Seen too much of it break  :evil:

Mace:
One small tip, I replaced my OK steering damper for a pro-comp one when I relocated the damper to up-front. The new one was mightily stiff by comparison to the old one but hey, it went on anyway. Trouble was I didn't do the nuts up tight enough, they were tight but not enough. I found that because the new damper was so stiff, the rubber bushes took all the fine vibrations and not the damper. Thought my wheels weren't balanced for ages until someone suggested doing em up real tight. Now the vibrations are absorbed by the damper and not left to shake the bushes about.

landyman Ash:

--- Quote from: "Mace" ---One small tip, I replaced my OK steering damper for a pro-comp one when I relocated the damper to up-front. The new one was mightily stiff by comparison to the old one but hey, it went on anyway. Trouble was I didn't do the nuts up tight enough, they were tight but not enough. I found that because the new damper was so stiff, the rubber bushes took all the fine vibrations and not the damper. Thought my wheels weren't balanced for ages until someone suggested doing em up real tight. Now the vibrations are absorbed by the damper and not left to shake the bushes about.
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I have a pro comp one on my hybrid and I found the nuts too VERY VERY tight.  It was a dog to fit.  On there now though and running great!!!

Range Rover Blues:
I found the DeCarbon one being pressurised makes the steering biased in one direction.  That said, since I relocated it I've got a nasty vibration that I can't find so I've ended up with 2 dampers on there for now.

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