today on steve rob reviews i'm going to review a little bit of a hack that i just got like a
well i was motivated to do this little bit of a hack because uh
my wife was loading some stuff in the back of the pickup truck and you know your door
your big door is in the back of your cap on your pickup truck well in the summertime that
door will stay up but in the winter time well boom right on her head right so uh
i decided to stop replacing these uh struts little gas charge struts and come up with this idea so
i'm going to show you exactly on the truck cap what it looks like when you open it up and uh
how it just drops down so i'll show you that first okay so here we go right here lift up and
yeah how do you fix that well i'll tell you what i'm going to do i'm going to try something
and it involves this strut right here let's take that strut right off and let's try something
okay so all i'm going to do is just take my uh
angle grinder here and i've just got a cutting off disc in it you know nothing fancy
there you go right there that's it so let's take a look and see how this is going to work
okay i'll give you a good close-up here so all i've done was just put a little bit of a you can
see how far i've gone in there a little bit less than halfway just took my angle grinder and just
cut a notch in here and what do i have at this end just one of these and you can get these anywhere
and uh we're going to see how this works now if you've never taken one of these struts out you
just pull this clip back with a little screwdriver and it unhooks the uh the two jaws there's like
two jaws a jaws on this side and a jaw on this side and you'll see how there's only just like a
ball that goes in there and so i'll put this back in the truck and you know these aren't old struts
so that's what i'm doing here today and we'll see if this little hack works okay here we go
look at that you can tell that it's pretty well gone eh
there okay
take vice grips off that i had holding the other side on i won't need to leave them here anymore
and that's it right there so you have to actually just play with it a bit and find the right
spot all the time that's on it because you could definitely tell that's not going nowhere
take that out drop it down now without all this grease here you'll be able to see that little slot
right and that's it right there okay so that's the whole idea behind this uh
uh a little bit of a hack there and uh you know it's easy just cut the slot with your uh
your angle grinder put the pin in and because they're gas charged when you put a slot in the
side there well as it goes past the seal it's going to leak out all the fluid and all the
air so that strut well it was completely useless already right so i couldn't do no more damage to
it so what i did was i cleaned off all the grease i just left it in the top position until all the
gas escaped and now it's just bare and you can see the slot easier and yeah you can just close it
and open it anytime you want now now of course i applied the little bit of a wire to it but you
could put a rope or whatever you want and so i had the wife come out there and she tried it and all
you do is just hold it up slide the pin up until it locks and that's it you're done i mean i mean
come on it's a 20 year old truck i'm not going to replace these struts anymore and that's it because
you know the next time i work on this truck it's going to be working going right to the scrap heap
so uh thanks for joining me here today you know maybe you could use this little bit of a hack too
you know you have an older vehicle you're just fed up of playing around with these
struts yeah they'll work in the summertime but when it comes to -15 minus 20 below outside
yeah you get hit in the head once and that's it you've had enough of this crap right
okay so thanks join me here today and if you haven't seen this channel before well
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