Shocks

[FLACO_G]

Do I Need Any Special Tools To Change The Rear Shocks On My 2001 Lightning?? I Was Going To Do This Last Weekend But There Is Baraly Any Room To Loosen The Upper Nut?? Is There A Trick To This??

 

[Fade 2 Black]

:wf: :wf:

 

[Bowhuntr11]

...how is this the wrong forum? :shrug:

Just want to make sure I am not missing another part of the forum :rockon:

 

[04SB_SVT]

...how is this the wrong forum? :shrug:

Just want to make sure I am not missing another part of the forum :rockon:

He originally posted it in the How To section and it was moved. Hence the :wf:

 

[Bowhuntr11]

ooooohhhhh

 

[FLACO_G]

Well Not Sure About Wrong Forum Or Not... But Can I Get Some Help Here People.... How Do I Go About Installing The Rear Shocks??

 

[SWThomas]

You won't need any special tools. It's pretty straight forward.

 

[FLACO_G]

So How Do I Take That Top Nut Off... Looks Hard To Me...

 

[lightninmike]

You have to lay under the truck, with a deep socket and a ratchet. A ratchet with a swivel handle worked like a charm for me.
Put said ratchet in between the frame and the bed and start at it (this is where the swivel handle helped)

 

[FLACO_G]

You Are Correct My Friend.. Why Didn't I Think Of That?? I Am Going To Try That This Weekend

 

[00SVT]

Hell I got the air gun and let it do the work for me.

 

[SWThomas]

I removed my bed to do mine, but with the right tools, it's a snap.

 

[ACSVT]

Its not hard if you have the right tools. I did not, and was too stubborn to go to Sears and get the right tools.

I had to use a long screw driver through a hole on a socket to hold the top nut....it sucked.
Never again, I have since bought correct tools

 

[FLACO_G]

So, what are the correct tools ACSVT???

 

[FLACO_G]

Tell Me... Tell Me ... Please....

 

[mickey03L]

getting stock ones off were just lil aggrevating. now puttin strange adjustables on the driver side was a pita. whoever designed the mount for the driver side needs beat over head with a boat paddle

 

[FLACO_G]

well strange adjustables is what i am trying to install...

 

[ACSVT]

I THINK its a 13/16 socket, but don't quote that. You need a deep socket and a long ratchet with a swivel on the end would be the best thing I would say you could use.

 

[xxSection8xx]

21mm deep well to take the top nut off the stockers. I did not have the ratchet with the swivel handle and it was not fun. A ratchet wrench would have been nice to install the Strange adjustables, because the hold back is on the end of the shock so you cant use a socket. I used an open end wrench and it was a slow process beacuse of the limited access.

 

[BC Lightning]

I removed my bed to do mine, but with the right tools, it's a snap.

thats how I removed my old shocks, just me and my buddy took the bed off, I did the driver side shock, he did the passanger, was done in about 3 hours taking our time, but it wasn't the first time removing the bed, can take a lot longer the first time