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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
Changed the shocks yesterday. 20 minute job, right?
The top nuts would turn about 5 rotations and lock up. I spent 30 minutes trying to get the first one off before I got out the angle grinder. Like an idiot I thought that must be an anomaly and surely the other one will just screw off. I sprayed it with penetrating oil, wire brushed the threads, three turns off, one turn back on, more oil and brushing, over and over. Nope. Angle grinder again. That 20 minute job turned into 2 hours.
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I do most of the work on my cars, but one task I did not want to tackle was changing out the A-arm bushings on my El Camino. I took that to a shop and paid them to do it.
To remove the A-arms the shocks have to be removed so the shop had to R&R the same shocks. Whatever mechanic was supposed to torque down the nut on the top did not do it right, and the nut was cross-threaded.
Of course it had been over a year since they did it, so I was stuck with a sock that was not tight enough and the top of the shock would move in the mount and it could not be tightened. So I ordered new shocks, and had to cut the top of one shock off with a dremel.