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Oh no!!! I am in big trouble! I just got some rear billies. And I was trying to install them. And now the person I got them from had sent the wrong nuts to go on the tops. He sent the oem nuts instead of the bilsteins nuts. And theres is a obvious diameter difference! Arg! So now I can't get the one test side off my truck since it is stripped.

So am I out the door 80 bucks now. Do i just take a sal-saw and cut it off? Or is there a way.

 

I too am confused.

 

I put the nut that came with the billies on it and i now compared the oem nut and they are exactly the same.

So I think the factory nuts were shipped on the billies.



Sorry for my confusing wording.

 

So what is stripped? The nut or the stud?

 

Well the one side of the truck has the bilstein on. And I started tightening it and now its just locked up and keeps spinning and I can't loosen it or tighten it. I used the allen wrench at the top of the billies but it also stripped since the nut was the wrong size. I shouldn't have even tightened the nut after I realized it wasn't turning easy.

I am about to get some bolt cutters and get the dang thing off....


Lesson learned.

 

I was thinking the same thing.

*snicker* "bust a nut" *snicker*

 

you the man!! are those size specific. I think the nut is like a 14mm.

oreilys or advanced auto should have it right?

 

haha you are the man also!

Don't bust my nut though.

Ugh... I feel like such an idiot.

 

Ithink that we all have had similar experiences.

 

Kids

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/suspension/106275-4wheelparts-morons.html

Never a good idea to finance car parts.

 

oi what's the word?

 

ordered allpro 3" leaf pack along with a ubolt flip and timbrens

 

my lease ended didnt want to live with any of my roommates any more and wasnt doing anything special up there so i didnt see any reason to stay up there

 

trying to get ready for the fall SERO meet