What a weekend

Well the weather in Vermont finally got nice where I could do some things outside on my truck. Got Bilstein 5100s paired with their 600 springs on the front, which lead to the discovery of previously installed Camburg UCA that were extremely worn and damn near frozen. I bet those things had never once seen grease. Okay fine, ordered some JBA and I'll fix it.

Next up, the rear shocks. Before beginning the R2 process I threaded the nuts that came with the shocks on what I thought was enough. Well I guess it wasnt quite enough because a little while later I cannot figure out why the nut is turning so hard. Definitely didnt want to mess anything up so I took the new shock back out. Looked at the threads on the shock, they look okay. Look at the threads on the nut, fine there too. Try to thread the nut on and it goes about 2 threads on and boom, stops. Same thing with both shocks paired with either nut. Took the shocks to a parts store and no one in the store is able to find a nut that fits on these studs. has anyone else run into this? The shocks are Bilstein 5125s.

A slew on other things then presented themselves to me but the last main one is the damn IG1 no2 fuse blowing. I've read several of the threads on this and they havnt seemed to quite help, though admittedly I havnt put the proper amount of time into it yet. In the last week ive replaced the fuse 3 times. Once a week ago and once last night and again this morning. The first two times it happened right after I reversed up an incline. But this morning it was right after a bump pulling into a gas station. The fan/ac hasnt been on any of the times. I'm stumped a few times over with all these

 

I'm not trying to be a dick or assume that you don't know what your doing but, is the nut that turns hard a nylock nut. They go on about two threads then get pretty tight feeling. There should be a shoulder to put a wrench or crescent onto the shaft to hold as a backup while you crank down the nylock nut. Post a pic and let us look.

Good luck on the fuse part. I'm no help there.

 

No man I appreciate it. I was an jet engine troop in the air force for a while so I hope I'm just not being an idiot, though anything is on the table. But it's definitely going on extremely hard. Every video I watched they didn't put near the amount of force I was to tighten it down. I'll take a picture when I get home and hopefully I just need to spend more time in the gym. Best solution

 

Lol. If you worked on jet engines I'm sure you're just fine. Could be one of those weird deals where they put the wrong nuts in. Weird though that they can't find them at the parts store I can't imagine it being some oddball thread. Were they looking at metric or sae? I would imagine its metric.

 

Suspect the nut doesn't match the threads on the stud. Check both SAE and Metrics. Might consider calling Bilsten to confirm the threads.

All the other stuff seems to be coincidence.
Just tackle one at a time. Run diagnostics first, selectively fire the part cannon.

 

You never know! That's why I posted here to see if I was just missing something dumb. Yeah we ran both metric and saw just to be sure. They were just as stumped as me.

I'll be calling them tonight and will definitely let y'all know. At least I'm getting up close and personal with the truck haha

 

Does the nut that came off the rear shocks you removed fit the new ones?

 

No it's much bigger. I think the one I took off was a 14mm and the new one is a 17? Or 19? I can't remember off the top of my head.

 

I'd just take my shock into home depot and start fitting nuts til I found the right pitch so I'd know what i'm working with.

 

Could it be a deformed thread style locknut?

 

As for the IG1 #2 fuse issue, do you have any aftermarket mods that would require tapping into a power source? (lights, alarm..etc..) That fuse powers alot of circuits @Jimmyh @caribe makaira . I would start by checking out for any corrosion to the trailer towing socket.

 

Those are terrible lock nuts. Yes, they work....1 time. Then you need to replace the nut and the stud because the threads are ruined.

Nylock type are magnitudes better.

 

The stem has a allen wrench hole in it to hold while tightening the nut.

 

Loads for the IG1 NO2 Fuse see below. The most likely suspect is usually the Trailer towing connection.

 

Sorry its taken me so long to get back. Life can be crazy. For those of you that would like an update the following night the truck died while driving. I didnt have the time to mess with it so I took it to someone on our trailer and he found there was a short to the AC unit that was blowing the fuses and not allowing anything to recharge. While I was there I had him look at the shocks and he was just as confused as I was. His thoughts were that somehow they didnt get finished in the machining process. Ran down them with a dye that was very close after measuring the threads and they worked like a charm. Got them all installed now and life's much better.