I ran into a little dilemma while remove the rear shock on a 2000 Toyota 4Runner. I cut the shaft on the shock like I have done a 1000 times.... and then all hell broke loose.🔥🔥🔥 -Enjoy!
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You should see Nascar shocks and how they're tuned.
Good info to remember
Thanks for showing this. To show humanity is to give humanity.
🤣🤣🤣
Glad you"r safe mate. Beside being dangerous, them shocks must cost more to manufactour. The way i would go from now is file a small flat and drill into shaft. On the bright side you managed to keep you"r eyebrows.
It's not rocket science, it's a fricken car..
Yes it's a kyb shock I use to make them
It is a hydraulic shock they put them on for better ride
When i worked at a scrap yard i seen a kid cut into one of those shocks with a torch one time… Straight up knocked him right on his ass backwards and sounded like a gun going off when he cut into it. Also spit a pretty big flame up into his face. Thankfully he went overboard on safety shit and was wearing a face shield but, the flame still took all the hair off his face even with that thing on. The shaft and big part of the shock are BOTH pressurized. Meaning if you cut into any part of it with a torch your going to have a bad time. It was one of the first things i was told when i started there not to ever mess with those shocks and so was that kid he just wasn't one big on listening to people very well..
Lol you let the shock do you on the first date😂😆🤣🤣😆😂
Its been 2 years. Have you come across anymore with holes. ???
What brand shock? Tokiko?, KYB? OE?
ROFLOL!…(sorry…but this one is funny!)
The loudest noise I have ever experienced. Subaru Outback ball joint. I had it on the bench, in a vice. I was heating it to break it free, for replacement. And a literal cannon shot went off 2 feet from my head. People from a building over ran over to see what happened, and I was barely able to do the math, I was in a bit of shock. The ball shot out of it's cup and vanished. Other than a complete near death experience, and injured pride, no injury. 2 weeks later I found the ball stud laying on the floor by the shop door. I saved it as it could have easily killed me. Talk about missing a bullet. I'm very leary of what and how I torch now days, and if I think there is a danger, I will drill a hole or two to relieve any pressure. Glad you are still making videos. lol
It's been a long time since that action created that result for me and the wife. Better ways, eh? 😉
To quote another reply,"Just remember viewer's,if l can pee out of fright,so can you "Thanks for video, lts one of your funniest and informative
A mechanic was killed at a mine when he was using a cutting torch to remove a stuck drill bit from a broken hollow drill rod. Unbeknownst to him the drillers had drilled through a loaded blast hole prior to the rod breaking off and the rod was full of blast powder. He went out with a bang.
Was just thinking, the rods might be very useful elsewhere… like the stainless rods in Teleflex steering rams… very useful. 🙂
Nice hiss!
Those shocks had him in shock alright.
The last time he was that scared was his first time many moons ago.
You can drill or disc cut into the lowest point on the shock body and drain the majority of the oil first. Then gas cut the top, slightly safer.
Shocking!
Wow, that's crazy. Next time…SAWZALL!
I guess the prudent thing would be to find out who manufactured that shock and remember it , then check the make of future shocks before you cut them.
I bent the body just a bit mid wheel well to access that bolt with a sawzall.
Just my 2 cents worth and understand this is coming from someone who lives in MS and doesn't have to deal with nearly as much rust as you. I would de pressurize all of them before cutting through the shaft.
"You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother (Shut your mouth)
But I'm talkin' about Shaft (Then we can dig it)"
On this episode of sma Eric milks a shock!
Based on the comments, you’ve improved the safety of a lot of other mechanics. Thanks for posting this Mr. O.
That is scary!! Thanks for sharing this!
G'day Eric, no need to be gun shy about cutting shocks. Just drill a hole in the bottom half to relieve the pressure. THEN cut with torch.
Same thing happened to me on the same year and went off like a flame thrower. Stupid design. Scared the life out of me too, luckily had an extinguisher ready to go
Weird- I guess they engineered the shock so that the valving was performed in the shaft instead of in the piston, probably to shorten the overall length. Thanks for sharing this dangerous situation. I wonder just how much pressure was spraying out the oil when it turned into a blowtorch? Seems like a safety bulletin is in order.
Eric said he ""grabbed his hose"and shortly thereafter, no doubt, grabbed the shop hose on the wall to finish the fire suppression job.
Informative
we started the hollow rods at delco….,,
When i co-ops at a truck shop this guy was warmingup a shock nut and it was a massive fireball i was terrified lol the guy was engulfed but was fine but holy crap
Thank God you're ok man!
is this a self leveling shock?
newer seen one like that damn
" no pressure in the solid shaft"
"cut through the shaft" that sounds painful! Lol
When the last attempt at showing the oil come out had me dieing
This design of shock absorber is common on both large and small aircraft (I am an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer student). On aircraft they are called oleo struts. The design of this automotive one seems to be a little different than that of the aircraft struts but some of the same principals apply. The small steel rod that slide into the hollow shaft is called a metering pin and allows the shock to have increased degrees of resistance to compression as the rod is pressed into the shocks body. This would actually be a higher end shock as it doesn’t just have the same degree of dampening throughout its travel.
you ever pour gas down a carb and have it backfire ? that will cause you to uncluch your mud for sure …
It’s like a elevator which has a air shaft to move the air back and forth