Shock Bar Pin Break!
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Actually you would need a 1" shorter shock which isn't usually available. However if your current shocks are to long there is a nice lower mount you could use to help the situation.........Jeep should just scrap there sh$tty shock mount design.....
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looks like that one side was ripped out
i would bet that 1 of two things happened
1.) you didnt tighten that bolt hard enough
2.) you went wheelin' before and over extended that side of the axle, which forced the shock bar pin to come loose, and eventually it gave way
in any case, i wouldnt worry about trying to replace it with a stronger one
i would bet that 1 of two things happened
1.) you didnt tighten that bolt hard enough
2.) you went wheelin' before and over extended that side of the axle, which forced the shock bar pin to come loose, and eventually it gave way
in any case, i wouldnt worry about trying to replace it with a stronger one
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looks like that one side was ripped out
i would bet that 1 of two things happened
1.) you didnt tighten that bolt hard enough
2.) you went wheelin' before and over extended that side of the axle, which forced the shock bar pin to come loose, and eventually it gave way
in any case, i wouldnt worry about trying to replace it with a stronger one
i would bet that 1 of two things happened
1.) you didnt tighten that bolt hard enough
2.) you went wheelin' before and over extended that side of the axle, which forced the shock bar pin to come loose, and eventually it gave way
in any case, i wouldnt worry about trying to replace it with a stronger one
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looks like that one side was ripped out
i would bet that 1 of two things happened
1.) you didnt tighten that bolt hard enough
2.) you went wheelin' before and over extended that side of the axle, which forced the shock bar pin to come loose, and eventually it gave way
in any case, i wouldnt worry about trying to replace it with a stronger one
i would bet that 1 of two things happened
1.) you didnt tighten that bolt hard enough
2.) you went wheelin' before and over extended that side of the axle, which forced the shock bar pin to come loose, and eventually it gave way
in any case, i wouldnt worry about trying to replace it with a stronger one
No I didn't 4wheelparts did the install but after 1000 miles i did a bolt check and everything was tight and no wheeling just road driving georgia has monster speed bumps
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Just replaced the shocks with superlift on my jk this weekend. The bar pin on the JK is alot bigger than the bar pin for TJs. My shocks came with the bar pin for TJs so i had to press the old bar pin out of my old rear shocks and press it into the new shocks. Total PITA.
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Although the factory bar pins are the greatest in the world, I would hardly call them "crap". And, if you beef up the bar pin with a BPE and not fix whatever problem caused it to fail in the first place, you're just gonna end up breaking something else like the shock mount itself.
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Although the factory bar pins are the greatest in the world, I would hardly call them "crap". And, if you beef up the bar pin with a BPE and not fix whatever problem caused it to fail in the first place, you're just gonna end up breaking something else like the shock mount itself.
I for one am not gonna mount my $700 shocks with a some cheap low engineered crap like that.
Last edited by onsafari; 06-04-2007 at 12:16 PM.