Shock replacement
01-03-2018, 03:18 PM
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Shock replacement
To replace the passenger side shock I had to remove damn near everything in the engine bay. I had to take the battery, fuse thing and even the power steering fluid reservoir to access the nut. I still had to sawzall the shock. What a nightmare. I just could not access the nut to tighten the new shock.
Is is there a short cut, did I miss something?
its a 2012 2 dr
Is is there a short cut, did I miss something?
its a 2012 2 dr
01-03-2018, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by themoneyshot
To replace the passenger side shock I had to remove damn near everything in the engine bay. I had to take the battery, fuse thing and even the power steering fluid reservoir to access the nut. I still had to sawzall the shock. What a nightmare. I just could not access the nut to tighten the new shock.
Is is there a short cut, did I miss something?
its a 2012 2 dr
Is is there a short cut, did I miss something?
its a 2012 2 dr
I can take a pic of mine tomorrow when it is day light if you want.
01-03-2018, 05:21 PM
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Yes. I did my 2012 a few months ago. The plastic you need to break away is so flimsy. Just a regular screwdriver used as a pry tool will snap it right out and give access to the top bolt.
01-04-2018, 03:40 AM
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Thanks for the info. I should have asked earlier.
I had had thought about taking a dremmel to the plastic piece but feared I would saw right through the fuse block.
Im a little disappointed with the engineering for not leaving an access. What vehicle is more likely to change the shocks than a Jeep?
I had had thought about taking a dremmel to the plastic piece but feared I would saw right through the fuse block.
Im a little disappointed with the engineering for not leaving an access. What vehicle is more likely to change the shocks than a Jeep?
01-04-2018, 04:06 AM
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A Miata. But that's an order of magnitude harder to do. I would think swapping the shocks on a JK on all four corners is, what, a 2-hour job? All in all, so far I've found the JK to be among the easiest vehicles to work on of all time.
It's often mystifying how they make some seemingly routine or ordinary things so painfully difficult to do. After I changed the water pump in my daughter's Audi A4 I was about ready to put a bomb in that car. And I once spent something like 8 hours changing the alternator in an old BMW. The weekend before that I did the alternator in my 240Z and it was literally a 15-minute job. Oh, and you have to take off the air box and power steering reservoir just to SEE the oil filter on my daughter's Fiat 500.
It's often mystifying how they make some seemingly routine or ordinary things so painfully difficult to do. After I changed the water pump in my daughter's Audi A4 I was about ready to put a bomb in that car. And I once spent something like 8 hours changing the alternator in an old BMW. The weekend before that I did the alternator in my 240Z and it was literally a 15-minute job. Oh, and you have to take off the air box and power steering reservoir just to SEE the oil filter on my daughter's Fiat 500.
