I have just purchased 2 factory front heavy duty shocks for the truck, and was wondering for a little step by step help. For the bottom bolt, do I turn the bolt head to loosen off or do I turn the large nut and keep bolt head from turning?
One thing I'm noticing for the nuts is that it's not easily fitting a Socket or wrench, when looking at them closer the hole inside looks Oval not round, and this seems to be why socket aint fittin good.
Some help would br greatly appreciated, Thanks...
By the way I posted a few months back about my rolling idle when in Park or Neutral, and as posted by someone it was the IACV (Idle Air Control Valve) to be replaced. Thanks.
General rule of thumb I use is to turn the nuts not the bolt. This helps keep the threads from stripping due to rubbing against metal.
There should be plenty of room in there to get a socket in. Have you tried making a "slim walled" socket? I have done this several times for custom wheels with really small lugnut holes. Just get a deep socket and figure out how much of the socket needs to fit in the hole. Take the socket to the grinder and only grind off what is absolutely necessary to make the socket fit the nut securely. There should be about 1/16" wall left on the socket atleast, or it wont have any strength. That should make it easier to get to the nuts.
I needed to make myself more clear on the nut. For my replacement part(shocks), I can't fit a socket on these nuts and by holdingt it up to a light, the hole inside looks oval not a circle meaning odd shaped. Now when I'm trying to fit a socket over the nut on the shocks on the truck the socket doesn't fit either.
So what I'm seeing is that if I take an open ended wrench I can fit the 7/16 on 2 sides not all of them, as for these compressed shaped looking nuts.
To recap, I'm seeing this fit on the truck as well as on my replacement parts. The bolt is fine 13mm socket fits perfect, as well as on the truck.
Need some clarification. We talkin 2WD or 4WD? Not that it matters that much, but it might make a difference in the set up.
You are talking about the round part that the bar goes through on the end of the shock (which is the part that connects to the lower swing arm)?? This part is going to be oblong perpendicular with the shock, meaning the hole will be wider than it is longer. Its that way so that the flat ends of the attachment bar will go through. If it was perfectly round and the exact same size as the part of the bar that the shock sits on, then it wouldnt fit through there to install the shock, but most shocks these days come with the attachment bar already installed in the swing arm end.
Talkin upper nut or lower nuts? This should all be pretty much open to get into once the wheel is out of the way..
Most likely they are going to be a metric size not a standard size.
So use the 13mm socket, I guess I dont know what you are asking about here??
Ok I had to go into how to remove the coil spring to get into the shock absorber pictures.. LOL Its pretty cut and dried.. Take the front wheels off. Then take the nut off the shock rod (top part of shock). Then take the two nuts off the attaching bar on the bottom. The shock should then just drop out. When re-installing the shocks. The torque on the lower nuts is
22-29ft. lbs. and 34-46ft. lbs on the top nut.
To put it plainly, I could have swapped out the shocks on your truck with basic hand tools in the same amount of time it took me to reply to this post both times. You are over-thinking this repair. Dont worry about the design of the new and old shock.. If they both look that way, then thats what they are supposed to look.
Just remember, take the top nut off first (one big nut), and then the two lower nuts (two smaller nuts). There is no guess work involved here. Changing shocks is about as easy as changing your oil. Get a repair manual so that you will have pictures to follow, and you cant mess this up.
Hello, I'm talking about the nut it self. You should be able to get a socket on it. But you can't, I've tryed metric and standard. And by holding this nut up to the light you can see that it's not circular it's oval looking and to me it looks and if it's ben compressed(squished) a little.
Also I'm having trouble getting a socket on the nuts on the trucks shocks also, as I'm seeing the same problem. I've done shocks before on chevrolet and dodges but this is my first ford. And my first Ford replacement shock, I've looked at the Monroe shocks and I can fit my socket on the nut they came with.
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