How to Remove an Old Front Shock

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Part of the video series: Pt. 2: How to Install High Performance Brakes on a Custom Car

Summary: Remove an old front shock during high-performance brake installation on a classic muscle car; learn how from our expert mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.

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By Doug Jenkins
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Doug Jenkins runs Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods in St. Louis, where he restores classic cars and creates mild to wild custom street rods. He races a 1972 Corvette in the SCCA...read more

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"DOUG JENKINS: Hi, I'm Doug. I work with 20 great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. So, since we have the front of the car taken apart, things are easy to get to. We're also putting shocks on the front. [PH] Mark's loosening the two bolts that hold the bottom of the shock in place. They're like the top of the rear shock. They have two bolts that hold it. They usually have a slot in them so that you can adjust them pretty easily. The shocks in the front are not the limiting factor in the travel of the spring so Mark doesn't have to support the front end. He's--they have bump stops up under the control arm that will care of that. There's a couple of ways you can do this job. It's really hard to get a nut loose on a shock. All it wants to do, because of the rust, is turn the shock around and around in circles. So, you get the vise grips and you put that on there and then you get a torch and you heat it up or you just get a really long extension and go back and forth eight times and you break that sucker off. Getting old shocks off is a real hassle. Mark is taking the easy way here. It's a little bit boring to watch him go back and forth like this but it beats the heck out of the torch and vise grips and welding wrenches on there and all the other tricks that we know."