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Our direct fit gas-charged shock absorbers help restore your vehicle's handling and ride quality to just like new.
Install Tip: To keep your vehicle operating safely and as designed:
Improved ride comfort and longer life
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. We've been selling auto parts for over 30 years. We're dedicated to delivering quality auto parts, expert customer service, fast and free shipping, all backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee. Visit us at 1AAuto.com, your trusted source for quality auto parts.
If you do raise and support your vehicle, you'll want to put your floor jack underneath, and you'll want to support the rear end. Just take some of the pressure off the shocks.
The bottom bolt, really easy, you can see it here, spray it with some rust penetrant. The top bolt, they've actually given you a pretty nice access hole here. I'm going to spray it as well. You'll need a 14 millimeter wrench and we'll see how well it comes apart. You'll probably need another adjustable wrench to hold the top of the shock. Put a pair of locking pliers on the shaft of the shock, and then using a 14 millimeter wrench, start loosening up the nut. 19 millimeter nut and 18 millimeter bolt, hold the bolt with the wrench, and this one comes off pretty easily.
If your shock's worn out, this is going to come apart pretty easy. Just note that if your shock is still in good shape, and ours are actually still pressurized, we're just doing this to show you, but once you take this bolt out, the shock's going to kind of go down a little bit, and since it's not hooked up on top anymore, it's going to want to fall down. Just hold the shock. You're going to have to use your wrench. Kind of turn it while you're pulling on it. Pull the bolt out. Shock comes down and get the washer and bushing on the top as well.
Here’s the original shock from the vehicle and the new shock from 1A Auto. Original shock is still pressurized, so it's still doing its job, but one issue you can see here is the bushing is out of round, so that's going to cause rattling and shaking. The top bushings are pretty worn out. New shocks from 1A Auto, they come with the shipping protector. Just compress the shock. Pull off the strap and cap, and then you can let the shock expand. New shock, exactly like the old shock. Comes with the new hardware on top. The bushing here on the end is very worn out. New one from 1A Auto actually looks like it's a little bit thicker than this original one and functions just like the original.
We're showing you on the left side. Obviously, the right side's the same. You can see a big difference here. This mounting bracket is nice and straight. That's how it should be. This mounting bracket over here, we're going to complete the repair to show you, but this needs to be replaced. They must have gone off road or something and hit the shock mount. It's quite common, but it's bent and really should be fixed and replaced. If you don't fix it and replace it, you're going to end up wearing out your shock prematurely. But given all that said, we'll still show you how to mount it.
Put your shock in place. Put the bolt in. Because it's bent, we're going to have to do a little bit of maneuvering to get the bolt through. The bolt's through, so then we take our upper bushing and washer, the washer goes on first, and then the shouldered side of the bushing goes up. Then we can push the shock down and compress it and put it up into place and just let the gas pressure push it right up in. Washer, start the nut out on the bottom, and then on the top we'll put the bushing on first with the shoulder down and then the washer and nut. We'll hold onto our shock and use our 14 millimeter ratcheting wrench to tighten up the nut. You basically just tighten it down until it stops. That compresses the rubber bushings. I'm going to just tighten this up preliminarily. We're going to lower it down on the ground and get it into ride position. We can let our jack down. Again, we'll replace both sides. We're just showing you one to show you the process. Let it down. Make sure all the weight is on the vehicle. With the vehicle down in its ride position, tighten up the lower bolt and nut.
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