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Originally Posted by RamAir02
Update: I spoke with Joe at Multimatic yesterday.
As expected, once the nut loosens or comes off from the camber plate, the whole DSSV is trash. Not only are they not serviceable, but once the seal between the camber plate and damper is broken, the gas is discharged.
I did (mostly) install the used DSSV that I got from ebay. Just waiting on new hardware since the lower bolts are TTY. Super easy swap -- it took maybe 20 mins once the car was in the air and wheel off.
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So...while I don't have a ZLE, I had a set of DSSVs to install on my SS 1LE. As I mentioned above I had dissected a damaged front assembly, last winter, for which I have lots of pics of the internals. On Tuesday I decided to install my complete set. I started with the LF, got everything bolted in and relieved the jack from the bottom of the suspension assembly. When I did that I heard a 'pssssst" sound from the camber plate area. I immediately knew what this could mean. A loss of pressurized nitrogen from the strut. I was able to duplicate the sound by prying the upper spring perch away, to the point of complete nitrogen loss. This caused the upper ball stud to have large clearance.
I dissected this LF strut today at work and was able to finish off the loosening the large nut that is inside the strut insert. I was able to just spin the camber plate off, relieving it of the internal nut, just as Snakebt6 posted.
Lucky for me that LF was the first part of the DSSVs I tried to install and not the last of the other three.
Here is a video of me bleeding off the nitrogen.
https://youtube.com/shorts/SgRH2A0s6...dwbBVd3YZQcLDE
The ball stud.
Ball stud within the upper strut insert.
