Alright, so today we’re replacing a front shock on a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
As you can see this one is pretty rusted out.
So right here at the bottom there are two 13 millimeter bolts and as far as the top
goes, if you look inside here underneath these things you can see where the end of that bolt
is.
That’s the top of the shock.
See if I can get a focus on that.
So that’s the top of the shock so you have to unscrew that.
If you look at the passenger side you can get a better clip of it.
So it’s something that looks like that.
Anyway the top nut on that one is a 9/16ths, and then basically what I do is I grab onto
it with a wrench and then when you start turning it, this part right here – this guard for
the shock will start turning as well.
So I usually grab onto that with a pair of channel locks to keep it from spinning.
I just rotate the top and the shield independently of each other to get them taken off.
So I’m going to show you a trick.
I have the wrench kind of kinked right there between the engine and then the other end,
you probably can’t see it very well, is down there on the nut.
And so the wrench isn’t going anywhere, but now that I’ve broken it loose with a
pair of channel locks, just grabbing onto that and twisting it, I can twist the whole
thing with my hand.
And so that, since the wrench is up top staying still, this is just unscrewing the nut from
the top of it.
It’s a lot easier than trying to maneuver that wrench inside of all that.
Not a whole lot of space to maneuver up there.
And now that the nut’s off the top I can just take this out by hand and just kind of
compress it a little bit and then move it around.
So the reason that I take off the top first is because right there didn’t give me enough
room to put my…the socket for my wrench right there, but now that the top’s out
I can move it left and right and give me enough room to fit each side in.
So that’s how I do it.
So I’m just putting the shock in now on the other side.
Um these bolts, when I was taking off the shock, just twisted completely in half.
So I went ahead and bought some more bolts, it was only like 5 bucks and it’s better
to be safe than sorry.
So you know these bolts came out in one piece.
I’m putting the other bolts in.
The size was the M8-1.25 x 30mm and I just grabbed the washers and nuts to go with it.
So I’m going to tighten those in, once again leaving this disconnected so I can tip it
left and right so I can have room to get the wrench in there.
Ok, so it doesn’t matter, you know, which side of the shock goes out.
I usually just put the one with the letters and stuff out so whoever needs to come in
and order another shock can read which kind it is.
And also remember that the guard right here is always on the top just so like when water
and stuff comes down it just runs off of the shock instead of being stored down inside
of the protector.
Right before you put it up inside the mount on the top end, make sure you put your little
bushings on.
Just kind of push it down and let it go up into the top there.
And it does come with a new nut so it doesn’t matter what you do with the old ones.
Here we got the passenger side.
You can see that I had to replace those two bolts down there at the bottom cuz they broke
apart when I was trying to take off the shock.
There’s the top part of it.
There you go.
It’s all attached up in there.
And down in there I have the washer and the nut and the other black rubber thing that
holds it all in place.
So that’s how you do the shocks on a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
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