Front strut nut bottomed out?

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I have the orange koni's, bmr min drop lowering springs, and bmr camber plates, and have a bad "loose lumber" noise in the front driver area. Everything is tight and no play underneath, splash guards secured, replaced the vertical links with adjustable ones and still sounds horrible going over bumps at low speeds. The only thing I noticed is the top strut nut on the driver's side has way more threads showing than the passenger side. I can take a socket and spin the drivers side nut and piston by hand. Is it possible my drivers side strut nut is bottomed out and can't be torqued to spec?
I'm aware that the piston will spin without using an Allen wrench on top to keep it from spinning, but the passenger side seems to be locked down as it should and I can not spin the nut by hand with a socket.

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[Oakley]

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you can also cut a deep socket to do this sort of thing.

 

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And there was the problem. Wrong top nut! I swear mechanic's these days aren't the same.

 

[WD Pro]

I’m interested …

Both those nuts are fully threaded, so both will go down the thread until they are tight, so what’s the difference ?

As much as I prefer the OE deep flange nut, what really prevented the other from working ?

Either way, I’m glad your sorted

WD

 

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I’m interested …

Both those nuts are fully threaded, so both will go down the thread until they are tight, so what’s the difference ?

As much as I prefer the OE deep flange nut, what really prevented the other from working ?

Either way, I’m glad your sorted

WD

Trust me man, I couldn't wrap my head around it either but it was definitely the problem. Seems the nut was just bottoming out on just the piston. That hat part gives it more thread and surface area to torque to the mount. Went from sounding like a busted strut to quiet as a mouse.
I actually had to use the weird nut with washers. I couldn't get a brand new oe nut to thread on. Maybe with an impact but don't have one. When I go get an alignment I'll get it sorted out. Hoping they didn't originally thread a nut with a different pitch

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