How to Install a New Front Shock

Video Transcript

"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. There are bushings that go at the top. You want to match the bushing to the pattern in your car. Some of them have the small neck on the bushing go up, some have the big neck on the bushing go up. So, he's got that bushing just on the bottom with the washer. He'd stuff it up in there and line it up in the hole and push it through. It's worth buying expensive shocks if you have a choice. Expensive ones last longer, work better. I've seen cheap shocks wear out in just a couple of years. The guys are doing their NASCAR pit stops, spreading nuts on it, top speed with an impact gun. That's pretty risky. Don't do it. [PH] Mark started these by hand and then used the air wrench to tighten them up. So, bushing on first then the big washer then that little washer that they--oh, it's a straight to the--this is a double nut deal on this one. This is another operation that's greatly helped by air tools. Without having weight on the shock to hold that nut tight, it's sometimes a trick to get the first nut tight on there. So, the pneumatic wrench gives him the ability to tighten it down pretty easily without the shock turning too much. And just go until you smash that bushing. If you go all the way down, just tighten and tighten and tighten, you'll waste the bushing. So, he's holing his impact gun with a little bit of an angle there. So, he just grabs the jammed nut instead of the first nut as well."