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So, thanks to the overtaxed and under intelligenced city of El Paso, I managed to shatter the right front on a 'not a pothole, but stripping' mess on the roads. Basically hit the thing and before I had a chance to hit the brakes, clanged the asphalt and then apparently hit an exposed manhole cover, which stuff the rod through the monotube inside the shock assmbly, as well as breaking the pistons inside the caliper. Trust me, I'm not amused in the least of bits. My question is, before we take apart the driver's side next, is this:
There is a stud on the top of the shock, that goes through the mount and the upper control arm. Do you need to tighten the nut down on that until you run out of thread, leaving like an inch of stud left, or should it just be on enough to keep the assembly together? My dad and I almost rebuilt the entire moveable structure over there, and I'm still getting a nasty rattle whenever I hit an ant in the road or a seam in the road at 20 miles an hour. Or am I needing to wait for the spring memory in the coil to push back out some from the compression tool we used to get the spring off the old shock? No, I didn't replace the spring yet, just don't have the money at the moment to buy a good set.
There is a stud on the top of the shock, that goes through the mount and the upper control arm. Do you need to tighten the nut down on that until you run out of thread, leaving like an inch of stud left, or should it just be on enough to keep the assembly together? My dad and I almost rebuilt the entire moveable structure over there, and I'm still getting a nasty rattle whenever I hit an ant in the road or a seam in the road at 20 miles an hour. Or am I needing to wait for the spring memory in the coil to push back out some from the compression tool we used to get the spring off the old shock? No, I didn't replace the spring yet, just don't have the money at the moment to buy a good set.
