Shock advice!
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:29 pm
Tried to fit my lovely new Spax today, but I got so far and I can't get this undone any ideas? tried heat, tapping etc. It's beggining to bend now!!!! 
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Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 4:48 pm
I am trying to undo the right bit??
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:07 pm
What comes in the Spax kit?
That nut holds the replaceable shock insert in place, could never get mine undone when i was overhauling my suspension but was under the impression that the whole shock got replaced with these spring/shock kits....?
Matt
That nut holds the replaceable shock insert in place, could never get mine undone when i was overhauling my suspension but was under the impression that the whole shock got replaced with these spring/shock kits....?
Matt
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:11 pm
Yes you are trying the right bolt but it's very tight and rusty.
Try soaking it with plenty of WD40 and getting a big stilson pipe wrench on the nut whilst holding the suspension leg in a vice.
They can be tricky to undo.
Cheers,
Iain T
Try soaking it with plenty of WD40 and getting a big stilson pipe wrench on the nut whilst holding the suspension leg in a vice.
They can be tricky to undo.
Cheers,
Iain T
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 11:26 pm
yup just done mine one side ok -other was a bugger
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:47 am
I would not put the leg in a vice.
Bolt the leg to a wheel and lay the wheel down onto a flat surface and get some one to stand on the wheel while you try to get the nut off.
Andrew
Bolt the leg to a wheel and lay the wheel down onto a flat surface and get some one to stand on the wheel while you try to get the nut off.
Andrew
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:48 am
Personally I'd use a vice and plenty of violence.
I used a workmate to hold it and then cut a slot at an angle in the offending item then wedged a large screw driver in the slot and erm tapped it with a medium sized walloping device. Worked a treat
I used a workmate to hold it and then cut a slot at an angle in the offending item then wedged a large screw driver in the slot and erm tapped it with a medium sized walloping device. Worked a treat
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:01 am
Cheers for the advice guy's! I have accepted defeat this weekend and put it all back together (what a waste of time). Next weekend will be round two and I'm gonna go for the workmate followed by the wheel and a friend 
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:37 am
I cant believe you guys are telling him to use a vice, dont you think that a vice would deform the strut leg? it will affect everything from camber to caster if you bend it even lightly.
Andrew
Andrew
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:24 pm
These things arent made of cheese they can take some violence what do you think happens when you hit a pot hole or you mrs drives up a kerb?Demlotcrew wrote:I cant believe you guys are telling him to use a vice, dont you think that a vice would deform the strut leg? it will affect everything from camber to caster if you bend it even lightly.
Andrew
personally i use a vice and a big....
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:49 pm
i use a large mole grip or monkey rench, does the job every time, although bolting on the wheel can help,
i call all of this, THE OTHER LANGUAGE!
i call all of this, THE OTHER LANGUAGE!