I took a few minutes to browse the RO's at work and did find a few
Dakota's with broken shock bolts. Here's the "Dealership" fix:
Retap/Clean threads, install new bolts with locktight Blue, torque to
80ft.lbs.
- Bernd
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Matt Grose
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 12:11 AM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: RE: DML:Broken Shock Bolt (Matt G. DAKSY, others)
Aaron,
Sorry it took me awhile to see this I was out of town for the weekend. I
did snap several bolts while using the 9000's. A total of 7, 4 on the
drivers side and 3 on the passenger side. The first time they broke on
each
side they did look shiny which as bernd said would indicate being
over-torqued. However Bob had the same problem and I am fairly certain
he
torqued his bolts down correctly. Bob also replaced the bolt with a
grade 8
bolt and that snapped on him. My only cure after going through 2 sets
of
9000's was to switch to another shock. I went with the Monroe Sesnatrac
and
haven't had any problems since. I was never able to find out the cause
of
why they were snapping. Perhaps I am cursed ( I wont say the name).
At 02:11 AM 9/6/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> I think we'll try replacing the broken one with a new grade-8 torqued
> correctly. We'll probably also pull the one from the passenger side
just
> to see what it looks like.
> I think I remember the same thing Andy remembers. Bob and Matt used
> grade-8 replacements with no luck. I think Matt ended up replacing
his
> ProComps with something else and cured the problem. I'm not sure if
it
> ever came back though. Maybe he'll see this and let us know.
>Thanks again.
>--Aaron--
>95 DSRC 4x4 V6
-Matt Grose
South Euclid, OH
1997 Black 4x4 Dakota Sport
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