Worlds Car Shocks and O-rings

[TheSpeedway]

What are you guys doing to assemble the shock caps to the body with the O-rings. The ones that I have seem to be a little large and are just spit out of the side when twisting the cap down. I have seen shocks in the past that instead have Teflon tape to get them to seal so apparently this o-ring deal hasn't been happiness for everyone?

The recent classic kit would do the same but a little oil on the o-ring kept the friction down on the cap and kept it in place.

[jwscab]

the o-ring should be a snug fit around the threads on the body. then yes, some oil applied should provide enough slip that you can tighten without the o-ring being ejected. it's definitely not a simple task.

[Patiofurnituregt]

A dab of oil helps a bunch to keep the cap from grabbing it and twisting it out or damaging it. This is very similar to putting a little bit of oil on a new oil filter for a car.

Additionally, not have the bleeder screw on will typically help as well.

[Twin Detonator]

First make sure your not using the slightly larger adjusting collar o-rings, they are a bit bigger, I caught myself the first time doing just that.
My O-rings for the shock tops seem too tight and were a pain to put on when my hands had oil all over them, they did seal fine how ever.
Lynn

[TheSpeedway]

Hi - Are you saying that the larger of the two orings goes in the adjusting collar and the smaller goes up top with the Cap? If so.. are you sure? Thanks

[slotcarrod]

100% sure!

[TheSpeedway]

Okey Dokey.. I will get with the program then and make this work.. Thanks Guys!

[TheSpeedway]

Guys - Thanks for the help.

We were down in Hallett Oklahoma running the Porsche so I was working on these in the motel room and had left the instruction manual at home.
I bought new O-rings in case I nicked the one trying to install them in the wrong places. The shocks are now together correctly.