Info about strut top IE. vadis/vida

[pierremcalpine]

Originally Posted by happy diver

Assembling the spring strut

Lubricate the stop using petroleum jelly. Install the stop in the dust boot.
Pull out the shock absorber rod completely.
Install:
the rubber stop and dust boot
the rubber on the underneath
the spring strut through the spring
the rubber on top
the upper spring seat
the mounting
the upper mounting for the spring strut
the nut. Finger tighten.
Install the spring seat so that the holes in both the spring seats are lined up.
Carefully release the spring and check that is correctly positioned in the rubber stop at the spring seats.
Tighten the nut to 65 Nm.
Coat the bearing in grease.
Install dust cover.
Remove the spring strut from the special tool.

Good luck measuring the 65Nm. When I did mine (or rather after the 3rd of 4th time I did mine), for piece of mind, I drove the strut over to Volvo and said, please tighten these to 65Nm as per VIDA. The mech frowned, then chuckled. He grabbed my strut and brought me over to his air gun. He says, this is the way we always do it: take the air gun to the top bolt and tighten it until the mount starts to spin. You are done...figures.