For the past few weeks, I have been experiencing a slight Dashboard creek. I would have been concerned, except for the fact that one-week before I was talking to VWGUY4EVER about our B5's and he mentioned that he had a dashboard creek, and it went away after a while. At the time I had no such prolbem with my B5. So a few days later when it happened to me, I thought hey this is "normal" and it'll go away soon. Totally my fault for not looking into it sooner.
In the past week things have gotten much worse, a more consistent. My sister drove my B5 the other day and wondered if that bar I put in was the problem.
So I loosened both bolts and using a torque wrench set to 50 ft-lbs I began to retorqued the bolts. A second later it gave way. Yes I stripped the thread, not on the bolts, but on the Nut or whatever it is that is tied to my front suspension. I took out my P&P Strut bar, and placed the bolts back in. Without the Strut Bar, I was able to catch 4 or 5 threads.
I would not recommend using the P&P strut Bar
WITHOUT replacing the factory bolts with a bolt that is at least 1/4"-1/2" longer, so it can catch more threads.
As for my car, I may not ever place the strut bar back again, as I am now missing those threads permanently, and when you have a strut bar, it blocks the Battery, and other components. I would be scared each time I would need to move the bar for simple maintenance procedures.
-Joe
Here are P&P's instructions on mounting the bar:
http://www.pandpmotorsports.com/strut.htm
<![CDATA[For the past few weeks, I have been experiencing a slight Dashboard creek. I would have been concerned, except for the fact that one-week before I was talking to VWGUY4EVER about our B5's and he mentioned that he had a dashboard creek, and it went away after a while. At the time I had no such prolbem with my B5. So a few days later when it happened to me, I thought hey this is "normal" and it'll go away soon. Totally my fault for not looking into it sooner.
In the past week things have gotten much worse, a more consistent. My sister drove my B5 the other day and wondered if that bar I put in was the problem.
So I loosened both bolts and using a torque wrench set to 50 ft-lbs I began to retorqued the bolts. A second later it gave way. Yes I stripped the thread, not on the bolts, but on the Nut or whatever it is that is tied to my front suspension. I took out my P&P Strut bar, and placed the bolts back in. Without the Strut Bar, I was able to catch 4 or 5 threads.
I would not recommend using the P&P strut Bar
WITHOUT replacing the factory bolts with a bolt that is at least 1/4"-1/2" longer, so it can catch more threads.
As for my car, I may not ever place the strut bar back again, as I am now missing those threads permanently, and when you have a strut bar, it blocks the Battery, and other components. I would be scared each time I would need to move the bar for simple maintenance procedures.
-Joe
Here are P&P's instructions on mounting the bar:
http://www.pandpmotorsports.com/strut.htm
[Modified by Furiator, 7:15 PM 11/29/2002]
