I too remember spending hours under my car recently taking off those #@$%# lock
nuts one tick at a time. I was sooooo pissed off that I actually sprayed them
in starting fluid and burned the plastic out of them. There was NO WAY I was
gonna put them back on one tick at a time again. Then I used loctite to hold
them. They went on much easier. I think after that I went out and bought some
racheting wrenches... good stuff to have. Regarding the shock and compression,
I don't think you will have too much trouble... just make sure that you are
ready to aim the shock as it expands and you might get lucky and hit the mount.
Good luck!
Greg Burrows
David Totah wrote:
> Last night I printed the installation pages from the 311s.org site on how to
> install front and rear shocks. While it seemed easy enough, I quickly found
> out that it was in for a long night of work. I spent 3 hours getting the
> lock nut off the fram bolt at the upper fastening of the old shock.
> I placed the new shock on the upper bolt, but an thinking of replacing the
> lock nut with a regular nut and a lock washer. Any reasons I shouldn't do
> this.
>
> Secondly, The new shock is already compressed. I am planning on securing
> the upper part first and then cutting the compressing strap that is over the
> entire shock. How hard is it going to be to compress this new high pressure
> KYB gas shock to the point that I can place it in the old suspension hole
> and then secure the shock?
> Any tips on compressing the shock? I think someone mentioned that they
> wrapped the shock with duct tape to keep it compressed.
>
> If anyone has a couple free evenings to help me out this week, I will bring
> out the Bar-B-Q grill, season a couple of steaks/burgers/you name it, and I
> will cook it.
>
> I would appreciate any tips or hints.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 69' SRL311
>
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