:icon18: blahahaha!! :tup:

I just crack loose while still on the car. Much easier.

I just buy another car.:tup:

That guys right never grab the cylinder with vise grips if you scratch the chrome plating it will eat the seals on the shocks and leak =blown bouncy shocks in no time but usually theres an allen or some type of way to hold the cylinder from spinning with a wrench if that is not an option you can leave the spring loaded up on the shock and break the nut loose and then compress the spring and take the nut off.

I'd mark the shaft, try it under pressure, if the rod doesn't move then you might be good. If the rods spinning and spinning you're going to mess it up. Techs and manufactures didn't add the allen, hex or slits for nothing! At least first hold the rod and break the nut lose. Then take it off with a air gun.

Mechanics aren't riders or racers! I'd fire you in a heart beat if you did that to one of my shocks on a bike or car!!! You give someone a scratched chrome rod that eats their seals and it blows on the track its your *** getting a beat down if it doesn't make them crash or die (more of an issue on race bikes). Do it right or don't do it at all!

Edit! And what Fing mechanic his whole life doesn't have the right tools to take shocks apart correctly??!!!?

I'm a broke *** racer so I had to improvise but at least I have a tool to slip over the nut and stick an allen down in to hold the shaft.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...ps19650e1d.jpg

i have zero faith in the OP

http://www.the370z.com/2435600-post25.html

went out of my way to mention this exact thing cause it sounded like you'd **** up.


please also catch up on your other thread before you take a steel mallet to your rotor

http://www.the370z.com/mid-western-r...or-puller.html

You cant succeed without failure :ugh2:

Ahhhh what do you know you are just the moderater.:hello:

:tup:

I'm not going to get in some lame argument with you. Your way is fine if it can be done, but narrow minded if you think all struts come apart so easily. Im done here.

Good luck OP!

Should of pm me. I just did my coils, I would of been able to swing by.