• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Suspension shims

B

Bart

Husqvarna
AA Class
So why is it that the suspension shims are so expensive?
Are they different from the ones you could buy in a hardware store (they only cost like 15ct per piece or so)?
 
$1 each might be a lot for a little bit of metal, but it only adds up to 10 or 20 bucks for a full revalve.

If you can buy the variety of shims you need locally, and they are good spring steel, go for it. I have not been able to find any other sources for shims, besides the suspension suppliers.
 
You don't get the point. I'm just asking if they are different.
I'm not using them, and wouldn't want to if they are different. As long as the steel is of the same grade I don't see the problem.

I'm led to believe they are just the same, although most hardware shops wont have them that small.
Just asking...
 
I have never seen a hardware shop carry a variety of different diameters for one given ID and thickness. Usually you only get one OD for a given ID.

Suspension shims (for cyclical bending) are usually made from one or a few very specific materials for that purpose. Shim washers (for spacing) don't have the same requirements, so they may not be made from an appropriate grade.
 
During my younger years I purchased all the fuel, hydraulic and pneumatic components and misc hardware for a (Northwest Airlines) commercial airline fleet.. and I can tell you those washers are VERY cheap in comparison to FAA certified fasteners and hardware.
 
Went to a local suspension shop, they were selling shims for 4,20euro per piece that is (about 5,70usd), thank you but no thanks!
 
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