Anyone Took Apart A B8 Bilstien Strut?

[Rippthrough 98]

After all the blurb about them being monotube, big pistons for faster response than those cheap twin tube competitors, high pressure gas, and not fading like a twin tube...

 

..imagine someone gets a bent set of B6's and B8's in the post, takes the caps off with an angle grinder to have a look, and discovers a twin tube setup with two thick tube walls, no form of seperation for the (low pressure) gas from the oil, a base valve and a piston about the same size as the rival dampers that get usually slated for not being a monotube setup and fading too fast...

 

 

 

*Note, I'm not talking about the inverted motorsports units, those are monotubes.

Edited August 19, 2011 by Rippthrough

[TT205 42]

A case for Trading Standards?

[Rippthrough 98]

A case of perpetuating cock-ups when printing the catalogues perhaps.

[Batfink 201]

Are they definitely monotube part numbers. Bilstein do twin tube dampers as well in the same type casings.

[welshpug 1,646]

maybe they're actually B6's?

 

thought only the motorsport ones were the big pistons ones which arent B6 or B8

 

does it matter though?

[Rippthrough 98]

Are they definitely monotube part numbers. Bilstein do twin tube dampers as well in the same type casings.

 

Part number is listed as monotube in the catalogue. 35-041344

[Rippthrough 98]

does it matter though?

 

Well, I was hoping to use the Gaz rebound adjuster in the bilstein monotube to make a cheap adjustable monotube bilstein.

Spoilt my fun, may as well just leave the Gaz on.

 

 

Haven't taken the 205 B6's apart yet but the top caps and welding are exactly the same as these 306 B8's

Edited August 19, 2011 by Rippthrough

[Rippthrough 98]

B6's are the same, twin tube, lower pressure gas, no seperate chamber.

So it's looking like the only monotubes are the upside-down competition models?