Changing Inner CV

[CozmoNz]

REAL?!

so its just the nut on the bottom of the shock?!

go take pix! im going for a 200km drive tomorrow!!!

[Fred]

dont know how to post pictures.
it was the bolt that holds the shock insert in place so that it doesnt wobble inside the base.

The bolt thing sits at the base of the nice shiny shock leg, mand dont know how to explain need to host a pic or something

[CozmoNz]

e-mail to cozmo_nz@hotmail.com ill host it

i do know what your talking about, pix dont hurt though

i really really dont want to crawl under my car in this weather

[IH8TEC]

its quite simple cozmo, if you've seen a the struts in your car, or ever changed shocks that have inserts in them, you'll know, as i'm sure you should. holds the top of the insert centrally at the top.

when i brought my car, i used to always have a bad knocking metal on metal noise going over bumps. i looked for ages, then eventually put it down to shocks, (this is the front by the way)

so we took them out, brand newish kyb shocks, bu some dickhead had hacksawed off that bottom bowl thing that holds the bottom of the shock centrally in the strut, then on the top nut, VERY DODGILY, welded a smaller spacer in the one that screws into the strut . so the top of the shock was alwas moving in the strut and banging all the time

all in all it would've lowered it an extra 5-10mm, and f#cked a perfectly good set of shocks

so replaced them new kyb inserts, got rid of 95% of the noise, then found needed bump stops in there, nows its smooth as. car was supposedly professionally lowered too.

some people

[Fred]

mand thats dodgy, least u found it before something bad happend was just frustrating cause was looking everywhere for something loose and it just wasnt something i expected

[CozmoNz]

That nut?

As lloyd gave me the image thank you hrt!

[IH8TEC]

yip

[Fred]

sure was the lil bugger, wow and i even used the right tool to tighten it haha