Is this normal? Eibach rear struts oil buildup

[Nibroc99]

Compressing the springs will be much easier if you can get three compressors on there vs. just two. IMO it would be much easier to pull them off the truck to swap springs.

My intention is to compress the springs with it on the truck, and then pull the whole coilover off the truck to actually replace the spring. Then the spring will already be compressed and I don't need to crank down on the spring compressors 1 by 1. I definitely intend on using 3 compressors as just using 2 sketches me out lol.

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[jb_dot]

Uggghhh. I am on a trip right now and felt the rear end of the Bronco bouncing around today and had a look at my rear driver looks to be leaking oil just like this post. I was wondering if anyone else had had the issue, so this is helpful. Annoying as I replaced my blown stock Badlands suspension with these before the recall was announced and now these have blown as well. I'll get photos tomorrow.

 

[23OBX2.7]

Uggghhh. I am on a trip right now and felt the rear end of the Bronco bouncing around today and had a look at my rear driver looks to be leaking oil just like this post. I was wondering if anyone else had had the issue, so this is helpful. Annoying as I replaced my blown stock Badlands suspension with these before the recall was announced and now these have blown as well. I'll get photos tomorrow.

you had the paring Eibach springs or OE? Eibach backs up their products...

 

[Nibroc99]

My intention is to compress the springs with it on the truck, and then pull the whole coilover off the truck to actually replace the spring. Then the spring will already be compressed and I don't need to crank down on the spring compressors 1 by 1. I definitely intend on using 3 compressors as just using 2 sketches me out lol.

The struts they sent me as replacements ended up being loaded struts just like I requested - so you shouldn't have any issues. They have a 1,000,000-mile warranty. Sucks that they need to be replaced, but I honestly feel pretty taken care of by their team. They asked me to send them the old shocks to be looked at to see how they failed so they can improve in the future. I assume that's them actually taking the shocks and rebuilding them, but who knows, maybe they actually are looking to see how they failed to improve their product. I will say, the new struts have a different wiper at the piston area, so maybe it's indeed been improved since last year when I bought my originals.

 

[Nibroc99]

Compressing the springs will be much easier if you can get three compressors on there vs. just two. IMO it would be much easier to pull them off the truck to swap springs.

Update: they ended up sending me loaded replacements!

 

[jb_dot]

you had the paring Eibach springs or OE? Eibach backs up their products...

Paired Eibach springs (heavy ones for the rear). I'll reach out - I bought them through a Canadian drop shipper so I have to figure out the warranty process.

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