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Originally Posted by Captain Snooze
I would have liked to have done that with the ASTs but it looked like too much trouble. I don't know why the hose couldn't be mounted on the top of the shaft like the fronts were. *shrug*
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The cannister has to be attached to the damper body, not the damper piston shaft.
Front struts on the AST are inverted like this picture so the 'top' is the damper body. Rear has the body on the bottom attached to the LCA, the 'top' of the rear is actually the damper piston. A "remote reservoir" basically moves the blue area in Tein's diagram to the cannister per the 2nd picture below.
MCS like Justin has is non-inverted front struts so the reservoirs are on the 'bottom' but have the same configuration on the rear. It's why Justin comments about the thick shaft on the MCS, that shaft takes the entire load of the front suspension, the KW/RCE is the same design.
As far as I know nobody has an inverted rear for this car, not impossible, but clearance is trickier and your shaft is at higher risk of getting contaminated which would lead to premature leaking and seal wear. It's probably better to just go to both adjusters on the piston shaft like Bilstein has, but that's just as pricey if not moreso than remote reservoirs.
