Send some photos to [email protected] and what you are referencing ... I showed the thread to our installer and he needed a visual to confirm.
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Installed today using my stock GT shocks. Wow! More noticeable than I would have thought. Awesome.
BMR lockout = A+
Steeda shock mount = A+
Like driving a different car.
Overall install was straightforward, EXCEPT for not knowing I needed a special stock socket to tighten the new bolt at the top of the shock. Apparently it is not a common tool. I probably spent more time running around than actually finishing the job. I ended up using needle nose vice grips and closed wrench to get it tight. That worked.
Anyway great mod, highly recommend.
BMR lockout = A+
Steeda shock mount = A+
Like driving a different car.
Overall install was straightforward, EXCEPT for not knowing I needed a special stock socket to tighten the new bolt at the top of the shock. Apparently it is not a common tool. I probably spent more time running around than actually finishing the job. I ended up using needle nose vice grips and closed wrench to get it tight. That worked.
Anyway great mod, highly recommend.
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What do you mean?
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The billet mount pivots all around the top of the shaft but not in a floppy sort of way. And the shaft can be moved in the shock body but not easily.
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It's a bearing, so it should be able to move with some notable effort. The mount body itself should not move. Shock piston should of course go up and down.
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Yeah big trouble. Mid way of running the special nut down it has seized, will not back off. I hand started and really think the threads were not cut right. I've broken an Allen wrench trying to remove it. As you can see im really trying to just get the shock and am mid way of slicing it off. Steeda we need to talk...
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I'm struggling with how you managed that. Get some heat to get that off. It should thread on entirely by hand, but you have guide the mount so it stays concentric.Yeah big trouble. Mid way of running the special nut down it has seized, will not back off. I hand started and really think the threads were not cut right. I've broken an Allen wrench trying to remove it. As you can see im really trying to just get the shock and am mid way of slicing it off. Steeda we need to talk...
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No way it spins completely down by hand. threads r jammed. as you can see the mount isnt even engaged to the sleeve nut. the nut is about 1/4" engaged to the threads on the shock, the other nut is bad as well so i will send it back and let Steeda investigate.
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Wrap the shaft with electric tape pretty thick and put it in a vise or if you don't have a vice wrap the jaws of some 12" channel locks with electric tape then use an impact to back it off.
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Which shocks do you have, and what billet shock mount kit did you order (what part number)? This sounds like you got the wrong thread pitch nut somehow.
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Just installed mine this Wednesday and one of the nuts slide into both mounts with ease the other wouldn't, so we tried sanding it a tad and some grease to avail, so we slowly tapped it in but definitely wasn't like the other. It's not the mount it's the sleeve nut, it was after hours to call steeda so we just went with it. But I would have thought I was the only one.
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