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Originally Posted by jmauld
Good shocks come with a smaller nut built into the top of the strut shaft. That's the proper way to tighten them. When I've used struts that didn't have that feature, I always retightened the upper nut after a few drives and I've never had them work their way loose afterwards.
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Ahh, that makes perfect sense if your struts have a second nut, cool.
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Originally Posted by Chez
BTW: I rebuild motorcycle forks at work all the time and I use a 3/8 cordless impact to take them apart as well as tighten them back up and as long as your carefull around the dampening rod you will have no ill affects. just as long as you dont sit there and spin the shaft once the nut is tight. just give it a few short bursts about a second long...
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That's pretty much what I was getting at, Chez said it better though. Glad I'm not as crazy as I thought :lol: