I've got a set of Avo coilovers on my car. The seal for the shocker has gone. Can you get a new seal and re-lubricate it yourself? When can I get the stuff from? How much should I be looking at?

 

How old is it? Avo repaired mine free of charge and it was just over 1 year old. Mine started leaking out the top of the damper adjuster on the front.

Give them a ring

 

I got them second hand, so they could be any age!

I don't mind paying and fixing it, I just don't wanna have to buy some new ones!

 

Which seal ?

The very top one in the coilover body is just a dust seal and can be pushed back in

 

Well the shocker is now very jurkey and clanky, its like its lost some lubrication?

 

Is the damper rocking in the tube body ?

This would indicate worn bushes, awkward but new replacement ones are available form AVO, but you would need a press to push them in.

Be better off returning it to them, after spreaking to them on the phone

 

send it to avo they will put new seals in and send it back not sure how much they charge thou

 

I've got a press. I might just phone them up and send it off! Car offthe road ina couple of weeks, so I can do without them

Cheers guys!

 

Don't bother with avo or gaz - if you can afford it get leda. Have been told that they are too hard for most "road" cars

 

Who told you that Simon.... let me guess a Leda agent

AVO and Gaz can be completely custom built, exactly like Leda's can.

 

I don't have or have never had avo or gaz so I can't speak from personal experience - I was seriously thinking of getting coilovers for my escos but ended up getting koni's and ahmed springs - because I was warned off avo and gaz by Mark Shead and Phil Saunders - and told its only worth paying the 1k or so for leda's (which for me was too much).
After the "advice" I had I read up on PF just to see what other people had said and notice quite a few people had problems with avo - that was enough to prompt me to buy koni's and ahmed springs.

 

Leda are just as bad for leaking as the rest

i know because thats all my old leda's ever done was leak after every 5 moths or so

Marco

 

Well they never leaked on our race cars last season,, all worked with out fault

 

As long as your happy Simon thats all that matters Coilovers are not really needed on a road car so I suppose in a way it was good advice.

The guy who owns AVO actually rally's a tarmac spec Escos. I know he has faith in them to do the job required.



What exactly were the 'race cars' KA ZETEC ?

 

Never had any problems with AVOs and ive sold a few kits

Matt

 

We race in AMOC the cars are ASTON MARTIN DBS 5.4 V8'S

 

What era is the car from as they are mainly like 1950's to 1970's period stuff arn't they

 

Our DBS cars are from 1972 the later of the DBS models, we race against db4,5,6, other dbs and also race in the anglo american meets. We raced last at the ford huge meet at brands in october. I could send you some pics

 

Just post them in the motorsport section matey

 

I dont know how too im crap at this pc lark, i know how to send them from an e-mail

 

Read and follow this thread for pictures it's simple


https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19611

 

Chees bro ill give it ago

 

ive done it bro , ive upload a few in the motor sport section

 

Well they must have improved a hell of alot then in the last 7yrs because mine were absolutly the shitest coilover that i have ever fitted to a car i seriouly mean that aswell


I know the remote ones are good, the ones with the seprated cansters because they are developed for racing

but there rd version ones aren't that good

I know i have had them on my cossie and they were shit simple as that

they spent more time back at Leda than they did on my car

Did you not know there nick name they wre called Leaky ledas

 

Nuts,
I think you should clarify that when YOU talk "coil-overs", that you're not referring to the "show-type" ones that AVO and GAZ produce, but their race-spec ones, which are what you would pay for their complete "budget" kit on EACH corner, otherwise you may mislead people into thinking that if they buy the Ł500 ones, they're getting the same thing that is used on that Escort above, which is most DEFINITELY not the case..... .

 

Marco, they must have done, as mine have been on the car two years now and are perfect (touch wood ).

 

These are mine on my road going ka,





Work beautifully for me, a little harsh on the road.

 

Ohhh the fun we have had trying to re straighten some of those mate

The bit where it narrows just below the knob is one of the weak points on the fronts. The pistons are made of butter too. Should be fine on a small light road car tho'

Mike, you know we can only educate to a point where money takes over and wins

 

well they have to narrow to fit in the bloody front hubs, well its a good thing ive got money to throw about.

 

Most of them are designed like that mate, not just the KA ones

 

Mike

Fair play to Leda for sorting them out thats the way they should have been from day one


cheers marco