If it's anything like a Neon (and it looks like it), just buy a big
enough 1/2" drive deep well socket to fit the nut, then use a grinder to
grind some wrench flats on the side of the socket body. Then you put
the socket that fits the top of the shaft of the shock on, then you
slide the big socket over the top of that, and slide a proper extension
through the hole in the large socket. Then you use the inner socket to
keep the shaft from spinning while using your freshly ground wrench
flats to turn the socket and thus the nut. Works removing and installing.
MattB
Eric wrote:
> So, is the upper shock stud tool needed ?
>
> Here's an example:
>
> http://media.popularmechanics.com/images/tb_lg_tb_9912AUSMC.jpg
>
> I have so far not been able to get the shock nut off w/o this
> tool. I tried vice grips, etc, but can't get them to stay, partly
> because of not having enough space.
>
> There isn't a rust issue or anything like that.
>
> Either i am being a doofus or this is actually harder than it
> should be.
>
> No one here has it, and the store guys say "just grab the shaft
> below the mount". But there is no way to get anything to the shaft
> since it is buried in the coil spring up in the control arm "dome".
>
> And i don't want to do that to the new one, anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> eric
>
>
>
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