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Re: Apple Hydraulics and rebuilt shocks

To: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@juno.com>
Subject: Re: Apple Hydraulics and rebuilt shocks
From: Bud Krueger <bkrueger@ici.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 20:10:49 -0400
Barney Gaylord wrote:

> Rebuilt front shocks #6 and #7 are now both leaking profusely.  I
> filled
> them Saturday for autocross.  Sunday one was empty, one was half
> empty.
> both will have to go back to Apple again.  On race days I have more
> pressing things to do than putting oil in the shocks.  This sucks.
>
> The original shocks lasted 38 years before one started to leak.  My
> main
> regret here is that I sent both front shocks in for rebuild when only
> one
> was leaking (gave up a good one).  Now I have two that leak, for a
> season
> and a half now.  If Apple can't get me two good shocks before the two
> year warrantee runs out, the air will be filled with the news.
>
> Barney Gaylord
> 1958 MGA with an attitude

   Say Barney, any chance that these are the same shocks that you just
bbbbounced all over the gravel roads of Alaska with?  I don't think that
I would be all that surprised about the leaks. BTW, guess what I just
installed on my 52TD today?

Bud Krueger


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