Colyn,

 

I am still using the old strutt.  After about 130 hrs it was starting to detect a lite occasional shimmy.  I removed the strutt and disassembled it on the bench, inspected it (all o-rings, etc. looked good), so I cleaned it up and reassembled it with new Bel-Ray 30w fork oil and recharged it with nitrogen. 

 

When removing the strut from the motor mount, I noticed that one of the C-clips had come off one of the bearing blocks.  Upon checking that out, I noticed that there was a .035" gap between the mounting plates and motor mount.  So, I made a .032 shim and reassembled the strutt. 

 

So far, after about 20 hrs, not a hint of shimmy.  Keep in mind that I'm running a Mazda 20B engine which doesn't have the same overhang outside the motor mount.  There was speculation that this may attribute to motor mount cracking.  Who knows.

 

Mark S.