1995mtxsho
SHO Member
I need a feasible way to get this !@#$ nut off the strut???
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NotSoSlowSHO
Gas is $$ WALK!
Impact gun and a deep socket may do it.
I resorted to welding a handle on a 1/2 inch drive deep socket, then using my impact and a socket on the hex end of the strut.
Good luck, by far the most frustrating part of my suspension drama.
I resorted to welding a handle on a 1/2 inch drive deep socket, then using my impact and a socket on the hex end of the strut.
Good luck, by far the most frustrating part of my suspension drama.
1995mtxsho
SHO Member
no welder handy, but its an idea, is that aluminum thing sandwiched under the nut? And once removed does it NEED to be put back in?!? I am about to blow up the stinking car!
RAYJAY
WHO ME ?
this is what i used .......
cheap wrench and a 21 mm socket ,cutoff wheel and a mig welder
Jeff
p.s. wrench is for sale or rent :laugh_ti:
cheap wrench and a 21 mm socket ,cutoff wheel and a mig welder
Jeff
p.s. wrench is for sale or rent :laugh_ti:
RAYJAY
WHO ME ?
the ring is one big chunk of metal amd rubber . I did not re use them
Jeff
Jeff
Mels
SHOVELHEAD
Perry taught me a neat trick if you're pneumatically disadvantaged 
Using an old-style sparkplug socket - the ones with the hex/flats on the outside as well, drop the smaller socket for the strut rod inside the larger outer socket with an extension running up through the drive boss in the outer socket. You should now have a socket within a socket, if you can picture that. Put a wrench on the outer socket, a breaker bar onto the drive extension for the inner socket and let your mechanical prowress take over. The bb should hold the inner while you loosen the outer.
Good Luck!
Thanks Perry!
Using an old-style sparkplug socket - the ones with the hex/flats on the outside as well, drop the smaller socket for the strut rod inside the larger outer socket with an extension running up through the drive boss in the outer socket. You should now have a socket within a socket, if you can picture that. Put a wrench on the outer socket, a breaker bar onto the drive extension for the inner socket and let your mechanical prowress take over. The bb should hold the inner while you loosen the outer.Good Luck!
Thanks Perry!
Ishodu
SHO Member
This is one thing you can try, You need a 1/4 drive ratchet, 3" extension for it, shallow 10mm 6pt socket, 13/16 spark socket plug in a 3/8" or 1/2" drive and a adjustable wrench or correct wrench to fit the top of the spark plug socket. Place the 10mm on top of the strut shaft, take the spark plug socket over the 10mm one now install the extension into the 10mm socket inside the spark plug socket. Hold the shaft with the small ratchet and then turn with the wrench. It works sometimes. If its really stuck you will just snap some part of the 1/4 drive setup.
Mels
SHOVELHEAD
Whoops, don't forget to remove the rubber grommet from inside that sparkplug socket... 
(if so equipped)
(if so equipped)
1995mtxsho
SHO Member
Sorry for the late reply, i got it with an impact. and had a wrench made for future removal.
Thanks for all your suggestions!
Here is a picture of the stock broken springs and assembled struts with new springs.
Thanks for all your suggestions!
Here is a picture of the stock broken springs and assembled struts with new springs.
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