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Originally Posted by feldy
Got new top hats yesterday put them in. Took the passenger side out this evening to check it and boom bad only 24 hours and the bearings are notchy. The issue I'm starting to think is the oem washer that's welded on the frs spring perch is larger in radius compared to the wrx conical washer. When there is weight put down on it the extra bits of washer is pressing into the part of the bearing that has koyo stamped in it. It's not letting it rotate freely on the bottom side.
Easy fix for stock shocks. Use the conical washer stop fighting with it.
For us on konis I'm not sure yet. I can't seem to get the nut on enough to let me use the pass through sockets to hold it it place while tightening down.
Shave 2 millimeters off the welded on washer? Maybe get a stock wrx upper spring perch and use the conical washer?
Ideas thoughts?
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I'd love to see a comparison pic of the stock FRS upper perch, and the conical washer. If going with the WRX perch and the conical washer works, I think that would be a winner.
BUT, if this was the problem, why doesn't it happen with the stock units? We've had another poster in this thread confirm that the new bearing Whiteline is using is the same bearing the OEM is using.