MOT Question - rear shock absorbers

[CaptainBeaky]

if i seem to ask too many questions its just because when i did the front, it took me three hours of struggling to get the bottom bolt fitted. I have since read a manual that explained how to fit them and it seems so easy when you know how!! I'm just trying to make sure i know how first this time.

I feel your pain - the job took all day and it took my knuckles a fortnight to recover from doing the struts on my first Golf
On the plus side, there is a bit more space around the suspendy bits on the Surf. Hopefully, I won't have to do this for a while (damn, no fingers-crossed emoticon).

[Evz]

Sorry to ressurrect this thread - but I was trying to swap over leaky old Toyota shocks for some ProComp3000s yesterday. After ages mucking about trying to find the best place to put the axel stands and getting my thumb caught in one of them in the process (can you say bloodblister?), I finally got to removing the top bolt. Now in the haynes manual, it's simply a nut at the top, but mine have a housing with wires attached over the area where the nut is. I presume that this is for the hard/soft control. I tried unsrewing one of the 2 tiny bolts on top. But several swearwords and scaped knuckles later I was getting nowhere.

Is it just a case of perseverance to get them off? Or am I being an idiot (highly possible) and they just screw off or something annoyingly easy like that?

Cheers

[BUSHWHACKER]

hehe. I done mine not so long ago and it is a bit fiddly. You take off the hard/soft actuators to get to the nut underneath.
Leave the bottom of the shock connected and undo the top first, as it stops the shock turning when you're unscrewing the top nut.
As you are fitting procomp 3000s, you won't have the hard/soft control. just unplug the actuators and tape over the ends to stop dirt getting into the electrics.

[Evz]

Thanks Vince - I'll let you know how I (and my knuckles) go on!!

Cheers

John