In completing a little clean-up of the Bugeye after the trip to/from Safety Harbor, FL for the All-Brit car show, we noticed some very clean oil on the left front under carriage of the car. We narrowed it down to a leaking shock absorber. The front shocks were rebuilt by World Wide Auto Parts in Madison, Wisconsin. Peter and Jane Caldwell are the absolute best for rebuilding these shocks, but this one didn’t pass the test. Of course, the Caldwell’s stand behind their work and we had another freshly rebuilt shock shipped from Wisconsin just a few days later. We painted the “new” shock to match the one remaining on the car and installed it right away.

New Shock

We jacked up the front of the car and placed it on jack stands. Fortunately, it was NOT necessary to remove the coil spring to do this job and that made things move along pretty quickly. After getting the “new” shock in place, we torqued the three mounting bolts to 28 ft. lbs., mounted the tire/wheel and lowered the car to the ground.

Front Shock Mounting Bolts

This turned out to be an uneventful and fairly quick repair! 

This video shows the shock replacement process from start to finish:

https://vimeo.com/1140563266/ab1e98ddbe?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci