macpherson strut hydrolics help

The cylinder could be higher (away from the axle) if the top of it was mounted higher. If you look at the pics that Derek posted you can see that I recessed the powerball in the plate. That brings the cylinder up as high as possible and away from the axle boot (while allowing the car to lay out). I am really not a fan of reverse flow cylinders and we have figured out how to run the hoses from the bottom and never have an issue. Basically the "best way" to do a Mac strut car is to do it the way posted by Derek. One of the days we will manufacture our own powerballs designed for this type of use. The normal powerball will, like Jimmy said, lose some grease when mounted upside down. When the grease starts to disappear inside the powerball it will start to make noise. As long as you keep it greased well it should stay quiet. Basically what you need to do it make a plate that bolts into the factory strut tower, fit the powerball to it, use the threaded hydroholics cylinders with a threaded sleeve, make tabs that bolt to the spindle and weld them to the threaded sleeve. Then you can adjust it to get as much lift as possible while still laying out. Also, in most cases, it is completely removeable incase you ever wanted to put it back to stock. Here is one good example...   A pic of the top of the struts that Derek posted.  

Edited: 12/11/2009 6:29:56 PM by k24 rd6

Jeremy instead of making your own powerball, I have a much better idea. Make a very large sperichical bearing  that would screw onto a Hydroholics threaded cylinder and your own bearing cup .Weld the bearing/cup to the upper mount.  The cylinder would be fully adjustable and you can run longer cylinders easily since you go higher through the tower. Plus you get rid of powerball sloppiness and have no fitting issues

---------------------------------------------Originally posted by k24 rd6Edited: 12/11/2009 6:29:56 PM by k24 rd6Jeremy instead of making your own powerball, I have a much better idea. Make a very large sperichical bearing  that would screw onto a Hydroholics threaded cylinder and your own bearing cup .Weld the bearing/cup to the upper mount.  The cylinder would be fully adjustable and you can run longer cylinders easily since you go higher through the tower. Plus you get rid of powerball sloppiness and have no fitting issues --------------------------------------------- Already in the works.  You can then also run it stroke downward and in Phil's circumstance run a honda cup bolted into the lower mount which you can then run 8's and still lay out if you're unable to run a pertruding powerball in your tower. 

In the works. You guys are always stealing my ideas. Must be leaking out from the hole in my head

why is it so imperative that everyone mount this upside down. is such a pain in the arc to run the line back up to the top. i'm going to be re doing joey's old xb front end soon i will use the hydrohaulics rams and i will post pics............i ditched this powerball idea not  long after i did it to my jetta and the qx4 ten years ago....then it spread without testingthe guy on top has the right idea but it is way way way too much lathe work for me ......people want bolt on prcticallity on mac setups. with this crazy is not better

Edited: 12/13/2009 3:12:37 AM by david lee

phil, those swivel balls are made by cool cars, i have them on the front of my escort w/ reverse flow 6s...ur right, they are awesome, but they are no longer in manufacturing. I tryed to order a set for my rear this summer, and cce got out of reverse flow all together. I opted for the standard flipped reg flow 8's with superballs on top....not as easy but gets it done still.