Afternoon all
Need a bit of advice - tried this afternoon to fit new springs & shocks to rear of my truck.
Jacked it up, put stands under chassis, another jack under rear diff, took off wheels, fixed & tighned up spring compressors, dropped diff 7 axle and old springs fell out, fitted new ones as a reverse process - job done, now to shockers (here's the problem)
Loosened the bottom bolts (easy), removed the "hard/soft" solenoid from top of old shock (easy, once you know how) but every time I got a 17mm socket on the top nut of the shock, it just keeps turning the top half of the shock with it.
Now I'm quite happy to strip off the outer collar & put a set of stilsons etc. on the piston, which should loosen the nut (I assume it's a normal thread & feels like a nyloc type nut) which is fine for getting the old shocker off but how to I make sure that the new nut is tight enough without some sort of clamp for the piston (which I don't want t odo as it's a new shock).
Manual isn't a lot of help, just says "remove top nut" - anyone got any ideas or already done this & can advise me how you got on. I'm determined to do this myself, but don't want to break/damage something.
Sorry for the length of the thread
ta in anticipation
hawaii
Need a bit of advice - tried this afternoon to fit new springs & shocks to rear of my truck.
Jacked it up, put stands under chassis, another jack under rear diff, took off wheels, fixed & tighned up spring compressors, dropped diff 7 axle and old springs fell out, fitted new ones as a reverse process - job done, now to shockers (here's the problem)
Loosened the bottom bolts (easy), removed the "hard/soft" solenoid from top of old shock (easy, once you know how) but every time I got a 17mm socket on the top nut of the shock, it just keeps turning the top half of the shock with it.
Now I'm quite happy to strip off the outer collar & put a set of stilsons etc. on the piston, which should loosen the nut (I assume it's a normal thread & feels like a nyloc type nut) which is fine for getting the old shocker off but how to I make sure that the new nut is tight enough without some sort of clamp for the piston (which I don't want t odo as it's a new shock).
Manual isn't a lot of help, just says "remove top nut" - anyone got any ideas or already done this & can advise me how you got on. I'm determined to do this myself, but don't want to break/damage something.
Sorry for the length of the thread
ta in anticipation
hawaii
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