50 thoughts on “Shocks are destroyed! how to replace. no mechanic needed!”
Wow ray… there are some really lonely angry peeps out there just waiting to throw a “get off my lawn” comment ur way…. I truly enjoy ur wit, attitude and technical expertise…. I was born and raised in Florida… not far from where u are… Gibsonton/Ruskin area… joined the army in 85 and never went back…. Live in Texas now which i find comparable… catch redfish and speckled trout down Corpus Christie way …. When i get down there. Keep up the awesome vids… trying to watch them all… thats why imma year back lol
i realize those are used shocks, but no brake cleaner spray? ,,, no 'nice and shine-ay' ? 😮 oh, the horror!😵💫 . imma need time to calm down🤐, might even cry a little bit.😥 ….not 😁
I just did a similar R&R with front shocks on a 1994 Jimmy; same exact process. Another similarity I noticed was how the top shock mount bent using the impact wrench. I backed mine off a little and checked the torque table and even though both bolts were the same size; 73 lbs for the bottom bolts, 22 lbs for the top! oops my bad..🙄
I would suggest using a drive punch to push the bolts out instead of using your prybar. A punch will not induce a side load on the bolts which risks damaging the threads. And I would have reinstalled the bolts in the same orientation they were in before you removed them. That way they'll be just as easy to remove in the future.
I’m such an idiot that I was looking around at the vehicle being like “damn that thing is super clean!” And then realizing I had never seen him working on anything all that bad…. Then it dawned on me….. Florida you idiot….. I live in Canada that’s why everything is a rusty pile. Lol
Replacing the shocks on your truck you were wondering why on the rear axle why one shock faces forward and one faces the back. It is to reduce / eliminate axle tramp or hop when accelerating. Thanks for all of your videos.
I don’t follow a lot of mechanics but you’re a fucking cool dude and you remind me of myself on how you think out loud I enjoy your videos and your knowledge I’ve been out of the game for so long due to getting a city job but you’re a cool dude
I enjoy learning watching your videos. Q: Does it matter which way you put the bolts in. Notice you put them in the other direction from the way they came out?
Most of you should just not comment. Just meaningless nonsense. Be happy there are vids like this to help us lamens people do shit ourselves. Criticizing the mans work and reasoning is just lame. Merry fucking Xmas.
On my vehicle, the mechanic put in after market struts. He said these are Quick Struts. Well so far, it's been 6 months and they are holding up well. For how long I do not know!
A couple points: NEVER get under a vehicle supported only by a jack or anything else but a lift designed for the purpose. One of my friends had a buddy that did that. He went out to work on the car before the Thanksgiving dinner. The short version is that it was not a very happy Thanksgiving for the family and the funeral was closed coffin. Second, unthread the nut past the end of the bolt and tap on that. It will protect the threads.
Well the bolts were put in opposite direction so the next shock change…..gonna have to take wheel, hub and back plate to "tap them out". Of course, this Frankenstein will still be around.
Great video ….as always….maybe next time mention..during the job, why the new shocks don't have springs…secondly, for those out there that haven't done a shed-load of these, maybe mention repositioning the lower shock bolts facing outwards, so the job is easier. Obvious to those of us that have experience but worth a mention so the newbies don't fret that it HAS to be like it was. Cheers from Canada North P.S. As before once, and probably because I was trained by Germans, but I was taught to tighten the nut against the bolt…not the other way round, but in this case MOST of the tightening had to be done by turning the bolt. Habit, however, would have made me do a final tighten on the nut by wrench even though it probably wouldn't have made a difference. Any other 'Old-school' or German-trained mechanics out there shout out if you had a similar training
I know this is crossing wires. But reading this jabroni in the comments talking about killing someone with struts reminds me of the gauge grozkewitz dui stop where the cops tell him turn signals kill. Lmao!
There's a guy fixin to head to the death chamber in 2 or 3 days down your way for stealing a Suburban to sale and shooting the owner. Chop shop wouldn't buy it because it was connected to a capitol crime….the guy was a star football player down there and would have been in the NFL.
Rainman to Silverado owner- "those shocks are shot, you need new ones" Takes old shocks home and installs on his own car- saving a few bucks so he can buy a 29.95 Harbor Freight floor jack.
I spray P-B on all the nuts and bolts before and after installation ,I noticed you switched directions on the bottom shock bolts, I do that all the time else wise you may end up removing a wheel
I don't change shocks very often but I find it a LOT easier to put the vehicle on jack stands and removing the tire first. And there is a LOT less fighting when it comes to removing the bolts, removing the shocks and then reinstalling the new shocks. I guess you just enjoy doing things the hard way.
Call me crazy. but removing the tire and jacking up the vehicle would make the removal and assembly so much easier. First off, lifting the body off the springs would allow quicker removal and removing the tire would make for easier access to the bolt. Your method seems a bit more complicated than it needs to be. Also, wouldn't you want to replace the shocks with identical shocks so that the springs would actually assist the shocks. Not only will they assist the shock but they also are lode bearing. Just because a shock for 16 years later fits doesn't make it correct. A quick look at Rock Auto confirms my doubt. Those shocks don't belong on that vehicle.
Wow ray… there are some really lonely angry peeps out there just waiting to throw a “get off my lawn” comment ur way…. I truly enjoy ur wit, attitude and technical expertise…. I was born and raised in Florida… not far from where u are… Gibsonton/Ruskin area… joined the army in 85 and never went back…. Live in Texas now which i find comparable… catch redfish and speckled trout down Corpus Christie way …. When i get down there. Keep up the awesome vids… trying to watch them all… thats why imma year back lol
I see Mr. Ray master mechanic does all his own work with the same professionalism own his very own vehicles. As always a pleasure sir.
i realize those are used shocks, but no brake cleaner spray? ,,, no 'nice and shine-ay' ? 😮
oh, the horror!😵💫 . imma need time to calm down🤐, might even cry a little bit.😥
….not
😁
I just did a similar R&R with front shocks on a 1994 Jimmy; same exact process. Another similarity I noticed was how the top shock mount bent using the impact wrench. I backed mine off a little and checked the torque table and even though both bolts were the same size; 73 lbs for the bottom bolts, 22 lbs for the top! oops my bad..🙄
I would suggest using a drive punch to push the bolts out instead of using your prybar. A punch will not induce a side load on the bolts which risks damaging the threads. And I would have reinstalled the bolts in the same orientation they were in before you removed them. That way they'll be just as easy to remove in the future.
I’m such an idiot that I was looking around at the vehicle being like “damn that thing is super clean!” And then realizing I had never seen him working on anything all that bad…. Then it dawned on me….. Florida you idiot….. I live in Canada that’s why everything is a rusty pile. Lol
Replacing the shocks on your truck you were wondering why on the rear axle why one shock faces forward and one faces the back. It is to reduce / eliminate axle tramp or hop when accelerating.
Thanks for all of your videos.
I noticed you put both bottom fasteners opposite of the way they came out.
Proves you work smarter, not harder.
I don’t follow a lot of mechanics but you’re a fucking cool dude and you remind me of myself on how you think out loud I enjoy your videos and your knowledge I’ve been out of the game for so long due to getting a city job but you’re a cool dude
From watching many of your videos, you've inspired me to buy a set of wobbly bits. God knows when I'll use them. (UK subscriber.)
So, where's the rust?
I enjoy learning watching your videos. Q: Does it matter which way you put the bolts in. Notice you put them in the other direction from the way they came out?
Did you put the bottom bolts in backwards for a reason, or just didn't care. Are they easier to get out that way?
Most of you should just not comment. Just meaningless nonsense. Be happy there are vids like this to help us lamens people do shit ourselves. Criticizing the mans work and reasoning is just lame. Merry fucking Xmas.
On my vehicle, the mechanic put in after market struts. He said these are Quick Struts. Well so far, it's been 6 months and they are holding up well. For how long I do not know!
Why didn't you include the spring with the re-installation?
A couple points: NEVER get under a vehicle supported only by a jack or anything else but a lift designed for the purpose. One of my friends had a buddy that did that. He went out to work on the car before the Thanksgiving dinner. The short version is that it was not a very happy Thanksgiving for the family and the funeral was closed coffin. Second, unthread the nut past the end of the bolt and tap on that. It will protect the threads.
Well the bolts were put in opposite direction so the next shock change…..gonna have to take wheel, hub and back plate to "tap them out". Of course, this Frankenstein will still be around.
I thought shocks were actually more difficult to compress.
Great video ….as always….maybe next time mention..during the job, why the new shocks don't have springs…secondly, for those out there that haven't done a shed-load of these, maybe mention repositioning the lower shock bolts facing outwards, so the job is easier.
Obvious to those of us that have experience but worth a mention so the newbies don't fret that it HAS to be like it was.
Cheers from Canada North
P.S. As before once, and probably because I was trained by Germans, but I was taught to tighten the nut against the bolt…not the other way round, but in this case MOST of the tightening had to be done by turning the bolt. Habit, however, would have made me do a final tighten on the nut by wrench even though it probably wouldn't have made a difference.
Any other 'Old-school' or German-trained mechanics out there shout out if you had a similar training
I know this is crossing wires. But reading this jabroni in the comments talking about killing someone with struts reminds me of the gauge grozkewitz dui stop where the cops tell him turn signals kill. Lmao!
I've been curious if you tow often with those tires. If so, how do they take it?
There's a guy fixin to head to the death chamber in 2 or 3 days down your way for stealing a Suburban to sale and shooting the owner. Chop shop wouldn't buy it because it was connected to a capitol crime….the guy was a star football player down there and would have been in the NFL.
Surely replacing spring assisted shocks with plain shocks is going to make your truck wallow like a duck in water.
What ever happened to the springs?
Absolutely love these videos. My favorites and I actually learn stuff.
Rainman to Silverado owner- "those shocks are shot, you need new ones"
Takes old shocks home and installs on his own car- saving a few bucks so he can buy a 29.95 Harbor Freight floor jack.
I spray P-B on all the nuts and bolts before and after installation ,I noticed you switched directions on the bottom shock bolts, I do that all the time else wise you may end up removing a wheel
Didn't you reduce the weight capacity by replacing the coil- over shocks with non? 🤔
good job ray, love the videos, But i have to mention, I lost a bit of respect when your trumpisim leaked out the other day.
The shock aborbers are shot absorbers. Even as someone that is not mechanically inclined, those things looked horrible.
your impact driver is actually termed a 'manually operated impact generating device'
Just trying to figure out why you had coil over shocks
I said that too a claw hammer really and he puts the bolts in backwards some people LOL!
I have found that when I get done at work fixing other people’s cars I have little appetite for my own.
If you put a blade screwdriver under the rear shock, it spaces the shock up so you don’t have to hammer the bolt out.
Another Great Video.
Your linear impact driver looks exactly like my mexican speed wrench.
Nice job and video like always
I'm surprised that you can put in parts from different vehicles and still have a good running thing…
Why on overload springs? Are they not required when using 2018 shocks?
I don't change shocks very often but I find it a LOT easier to put the vehicle on jack stands and removing the tire first. And there is a LOT less fighting when it comes to removing the bolts, removing the shocks and then reinstalling the new shocks. I guess you just enjoy doing things the hard way.
All these years I've been working with that "linear driver" tool and I never knew its technical name.
Why no springs on the new shocks?
I concur on your diagnosis, varmint hair.
Don't you have a mechanics hammer!!?
Damn Florida cars are too easy to work on.
Is the next video on replacing those rotted off backing plates and fixing the emergency brake
Call me crazy. but removing the tire and jacking up the vehicle would make the removal and assembly so much easier. First off, lifting the body off the springs would allow quicker removal and removing the tire would make for easier access to the bolt. Your method seems a bit more complicated than it needs to be.
Also, wouldn't you want to replace the shocks with identical shocks so that the springs would actually assist the shocks. Not only will they assist the shock but they also are lode bearing.
Just because a shock for 16 years later fits doesn't make it correct. A quick look at Rock Auto confirms my doubt. Those shocks don't belong on that vehicle.