Blckshdw
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Not mine, but the roommates... His suspension is shot to hell, so we went down to the AFB hobby shop with some KYBs from Shockwarehouse and used the lift.
Didn't get to take the usual obscene amount of pictures that get dumped into the mini meets thread, since I was doing work this time. While Kent and Carlos worked on the struts up front, I was doing the shocks in the rear.
They had 3 bench/wall mount spring compressors, so it took us a little while to figure out which one was gonna be the easiest for us to use. After the spring got swapped on the 1st strut, I took a spin on swapping the 2nd one, while the guys installed the first back on the truck. No one was harmed in the process, so win for everyone.
But, of course nothing ever goes completely according to plan. As we were buttoning things up, we got out the trusty torque wrench and started tightening everything to spec. Well the strut yolk pinch bolt never got it's customary click, so the guys kept cranking away. For whatever reason, the torque wrench decided not to be so trusty, and the bolt snapped in half.
We ended up trying to find replacements at O'Reileys, Advance and Autozone with no luck. Hit up Lowes for a Grade 8, they didn't have metric, so we tried a standard that seemed like it was close enough. Drove all the way back to the base, went to install the bolt, and it was barely too big.
SOOO, we had to drive all the way back to Lowes, to swap it for the next smaller size. Went ahead and got 2, along with some washers and nylock nuts, so the opposite side would be the same. That was fun. While under there, we noticed the UCA bushings are essentially non existent, and is the source of the clunking he's been hearing. Upper ball joints are also a hot mess, so Carlos spent some time on Rockauto, we'll be back there in a couple of weeks once he gets the new parts.
Didn't get to take the usual obscene amount of pictures that get dumped into the mini meets thread, since I was doing work this time. While Kent and Carlos worked on the struts up front, I was doing the shocks in the rear.
They had 3 bench/wall mount spring compressors, so it took us a little while to figure out which one was gonna be the easiest for us to use. After the spring got swapped on the 1st strut, I took a spin on swapping the 2nd one, while the guys installed the first back on the truck. No one was harmed in the process, so win for everyone.
But, of course nothing ever goes completely according to plan. As we were buttoning things up, we got out the trusty torque wrench and started tightening everything to spec. Well the strut yolk pinch bolt never got it's customary click, so the guys kept cranking away. For whatever reason, the torque wrench decided not to be so trusty, and the bolt snapped in half.
We ended up trying to find replacements at O'Reileys, Advance and Autozone with no luck. Hit up Lowes for a Grade 8, they didn't have metric, so we tried a standard that seemed like it was close enough. Drove all the way back to the base, went to install the bolt, and it was barely too big.
SOOO, we had to drive all the way back to Lowes, to swap it for the next smaller size. Went ahead and got 2, along with some washers and nylock nuts, so the opposite side would be the same. That was fun. While under there, we noticed the UCA bushings are essentially non existent, and is the source of the clunking he's been hearing. Upper ball joints are also a hot mess, so Carlos spent some time on Rockauto, we'll be back there in a couple of weeks once he gets the new parts.
