5100 Bilstein Install Issue

Hi what can I do here it turns and can’t grab it

 

Cut the rubber bushing then put vise grips on it. By the way do you wanna sell your indigo ink fenders?

 

or cut away the upper shock cover and hold rod with vise grips

IIRC you'll need a hex key on the top of new Bilstein to hold while tightning

oh that's the front shock ?

 

unfortunately I need the bushing as this is on the new 5100s

hadn’t thought about it but yeah could sell em

 

First do something about the spring.

Then use a grinder to cut the nut off the old shock.

 

Wait, are you saying the pic shows the new bilstein all chewed up?

 

Are you removing that to re-use the coils? I haven't swapped coils but suspect you'll need something holding those down if you remove that center bolt.

 

Yeah these are the new I was adjusting the lift and the guys helping me didn’t properly compress the spring and were doing it wrong and they screwed up that bit

 

If that is the new shock all mangled up:
Put the CO on the truck.
Put the truck back on the ground (so it's full weight is on the spring).

Now try to tighten that more with vise grips.

Or just grab a welder and put some LocTite-MIG onto those threads so it never comes off and call it a day.

 

Well I had to cut off. Please tell me I’m not screwed

 

Ooof

 

You may not have enough thread there now. From what I remember on my 5100's I had minimal thread.

 

re-assemble it without the spring and see if the threads are through the nut.

Also, ditch that used nylock and get a metal lock nut, use red locktite too

 

Impact gun. Easy off, easy on. No fuss. The proper tools for the job will save you alot of time and a butt load more headaches. I wouldn't run that shock unfortunately, I would deem it unusable...

 

I agree with the wouldn't run and unstable assessment. I just snapped a pick of mine to see how much thread is above the nut. I count 5 maybe 6 and I think you have 7.

 

Yeah gonna have to look for another one. No one near MD with a extra one willing to sell?

 

If something like this happens again, cut the nut pretty much all the way through then chisel it open/off.

 

Preferably before someone treats it like rawhide

 

I have a nut splitter. It's awesome.

 

I pm’ed you about your fenders