today I'm gonna put shocks on my truck just the rear shocks and I am going to
take I don't need to because I can access both upper and lower bolts that
hold the shocks on without taking the tire off but I'm going to because I've
got 90,000 miles on this and I want to have a look at the brake pads the the
rotor pads because just get an idea how worn they are well I'm not going to
check the front because I am going to be replacing the front struts very soon and
when I do that I'll check the front so let me get my tire off and let me get my
tripod out and I'll be right back well I got plenty of pad I am gonna replace him
though when I when I replace the front struts I'm going to go ahead and replace
all my brakes cuz like I said I got ninety thousand on this if I replace the
brakes now with some good brakes I'll get another ten years of it this is
a oh nine f150 by the way and let me let me get the tripod set up all right let
me try not to knock the tripod this is the top bolt and like I just hit you I
hope you're still on this nut is 15 15 mil there the inner is the 18 millimeter
here we go
all right I'm not gonna take that up yet I'm gonna get the bottom one and I get
you set up to to see that oh you and took you wouldn't believe how much
messing around and how to do to get that camera to show that here we go all right
stay right there
all right try to do this without bumping the tripod
if you'll notice this has this white wool wrist retaining strap here and what
this does is hold the the shock compressed all right I'm not gonna make
you watch this it's gonna take me a second to wiggle this in there let me
shut you off all right I just scrape a little paint off little
don't no licking
I'm not gonna tighten these up all the way it I am gonna tighten them down but
not all the way up so I can move them a little bit I have to all right now I'm
gonna show you how I get the bottom one that's the reposition you all right now
I gotta get a razor knife or something and cut this off
and you got to really control this as it expands because you're gonna have this
bolt down here ready to show through this hole or else it's gonna be really
really difficult to compress this shock and get it back up into that hole where
the bolt goes through let me let me get something to cut that
all right I gotta get a screwdriver go get that later yeah I gotta get a
screwdriver all right now what I'm gonna do is pry this over I'm gonna get the
boat ready actually I think it went in from this side yes it did
well crap let me tell you what I had to do I got it
but that's how careful you gotta be in how sure you are you have to be sure
that once you clip that retaining thing immediately these things want to
decompress and stretch out so you got to be able to control it and put this other
bolt in as it expands and you got to be quick and you see what happens if you
don't let me show you this this shock is fully decompressed and even though it's
still old and crappy I mean it's gonna take a ton of effort well anyway here's
what I did to get it back I I took this off I have plenty room up here for the
shock head and I caught that in there because if I didn't I would have to push
up on that end to get it in here and it's a whole lot easier to put your hand
over this up here and pull down than it is to push up so what I did was take it
back apart I caught this in put that together and then I put my hand over
this and I pulled it down and I got my bolt in there and maybe I'll show you
how the other side goes too but just so you can see that can't be done it's
really difficult to do this and record I think next time what I'll do is I'll get
the bottom one in and then snip it cuz I can control it with one hand as it
expands and get that bolt in there and actually have more room to get the
camera in to see this than I do to see that that's part of the problem was I
wasn't close enough to really control the expansion so that's what I'm gonna
do you've seen how not to do it now I'll show you how to do it and I'm not even
going to take the tire off well we're on the other side I just want to show you
what happens when you cut that that retaining strap there this is my old
shock lay down and watch happens a lot quicker
on than that on new ones so you got to be really really quick to get that other
bolt in and you got to be able to control that's expansion so that is how
much I had to squeeze the other one back in all right back to work all right I
honestly don't know if I can do this without bumping the tripod or blocking
the view with my arm so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna take my clippers I'm going
to clip that restain and rhetoric restraining strat and then I'm going to
grab this bolt and try to control this upward motion I'm trying to do this
without bump the tripod alright I did it but you gotta be quick all right I'm
gonna tighten these up thanks for watching y'all