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Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:38 pm

I'm not really too familiar with these, but it looks to me as if the bottom shock sleeve is stuck on the stud?
The car had no shocks and I'm trying to put new shocks on it. Can anyone give me a clue to what is going on here beacause I'm not really sure....thanks in advance!!!!

Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:49 pm

penetrating oil over night and some vicegrips.

If that doesn't work, try heating with a torch and re oiling after it cools and visegrip again.

Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:01 pm

Had the same issue with mine.

That is the old spacer stuck on the stud. Some penetrating oil as mentioned above and a pipe wrench work well to remove it as well.

Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:35 pm

ok, thanks!!!!! Thats what I thought it was.

Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:45 am

I just had that problem and I used some heat then sprayed some penetrating oil then hit it a couple times with a big hammer to try to break it loose then put vise grips on really really tight and started to move it back and forth till it slide off.
Took a little while but don't let it get you down it will come off with some good ol' elbow grease.

Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:01 am

or take the spacer out of the new shocks and slide it on and call it a day :P

Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:11 pm

supaninja wrote: or take the spacer out of the new shocks and slide it on and call it a day :P
How?

Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:11 pm

they press out or drill it out.

Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:55 pm

Use a grinder on the old one until it gets hot/thin and moves.

Sat Sep 10, 2011 11:28 am

I got the old ones off by heating them up cherry red then quickly cooling the off. then they slid off. except one. I had to cut it off. what a pain

Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:46 pm

thats not a good idea :? going to make the spigots what ever you call them hard and likely brittle.

Hopefully they wont break on you when you go over lots of bumpy roads :lol:

Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:15 pm

Your first advice is the best advice, penetrating oil over night and some vicegrips. :D

Thu Jun 21, 2012 4:49 am

Vise grip pliers worked for me. At first no matter how hard I clamped down on the sleeve it would just slip but I discovered a trick that only takes a few seconds to get them off.

Take your vise grip pliers and clamp them around the sleeve as hard as you can so that the teeth in the pliers sink into the groove on the sleeve. That groove is the key to it. Once you get it in there work the pliers back and forth while pushing it off at the same time. Should pop right off. The pliers may have to be adjusted several times so that they stay in that groove. Hope this helps.