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Post Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:26 pm

front shocker collars ,are they a bas***d to get out normally or ok???

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Post Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:15 pm

Ive only done one set and they come undone quite easy
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Post Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:16 pm

what did ye remove the collars with?
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Post Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:57 pm

I made a special tool that locates into the 4 holes on top of the collar and has a 1/2" square drive filed into it. However you could resort to using a big pair of stilsons !

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Post Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:24 pm

big pair of stilsons... vice and a scaffold pole should do it..
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Post Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:35 pm

A vice?
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Post Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:55 pm

i used a big pair of stilsons and a vice,but don't do the vice up too tight and crush the outer tube, you wil have trouble getting the old shock out.
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Post Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:12 pm

Okay these guys have some good advice but if i were you i would do what i do!

Get the strut off, then bolt the strut to a spare wheel, lay the outer part of the wheel on the floor, ask someone to stand on the wheel while you get the collar nut off!

This way you dont damage any part of the Strut and you dont risk messing up the caster/camber.

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Post Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:32 pm

thanx all
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Post Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:34 am

i had one that i couldnt get to budge at all, introduced it to our old friend heat and then it came straight off
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