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Gas Struts for Trunk
Hey everyone. I recently replaced my trunk spring for gas struts that I found at autozone for about 15 a piece. It works great, I pop the trunk with my remote and it opens all the way up without me helping.
I have a problem though... the strut I found is WAYYYYY TO STRONG. Its so strong that it pushes the trunk up and I can't get a good seal. I had one on each side but I thought it was going to break the latch. With just one on it pushes the lid to one side and causes it to rub. Its so strong that it can easily break 1/8" hardware. I'm using 1/4" hardware with a 3/8" bushing (nylon on one end and steel on the other).
I've seen other people do this and was wondering which struts or "gas springs" that they used. I'm using an arm strong or mighty lift 4417 which was used for an early 80 el Dorado hood. I can't find any specs on it, but I can't compress it by hand. I think a pair of struts in the 20-30 pound range would be about right, but I'm not having any luck finding anything. It would need to be about 8.25" closed from the center of each hole... and about 12" or 12.5" open. I've attached a couple of pics to see what I did.
Thanks for any help or pointers guys.
-Sean
btw that trunk spring was impossible to get out by myself... I ended up using bolt cutters... which was kinda scary.
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