Front shock bolt thread size?

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Mar 30, 2014 | 12:40 PM

DO2G

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Front shock bolt thread size?

Can someone please tell me the thread size of the front lower shock bolt size?

Thank you

Mar 30, 2014 | 12:56 PM

hugie82

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Can you pop the clip out and match a bolt to it? Those clips would break all the time and it could of been replaced with metric sae, fine or coarse thread???

Mar 30, 2014 | 01:03 PM

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5/16x1" long National Coarse thread (18 thread per inch) use at least a grade 5 or grade 8 bolt. What I do if the weld nut breaks.....I just put a nut on top.

Mar 30, 2014 | 08:24 PM

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5/16x1" long National Coarse thread (18 thread per inch) use at least a grade 5 or grade 8 bolt. What I do if the weld nut breaks.....I just put a nut on top.

I stripped the nut.

How would you hold the nut? I have everything back together and I really don't want to take it all back apart. What about just using a helicoil? The nut is in tight, but the threads are stripped.

Mar 31, 2014 | 06:05 PM

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Having the same problems myself. Three shocks went fine, left front, one nut is stripped, one bolt broke. Havent got that one drilled out yet. Curious about using a helicoil too.

Mar 31, 2014 | 08:35 PM

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Having the same problems myself. Three shocks went fine, left front, one nut is stripped, one bolt broke. Havent got that one drilled out yet. Curious about using a helicoil too.

I'll try it this weekend and let you the results.

Apr 1, 2014 | 09:15 AM

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Thanks. Its got me totally frustrated. Its the only thing on my 81 that I have found that Bubba worked on. The nut that is stripped just a bolt with a nut in it. Have no idea how they got a nut in there.

Apr 1, 2014 | 03:21 PM

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I broke the weld nut on my passenger side shock. I was able to weld it through the spring with my wire welder, it wasn't pretty but the shock is bolted in tight.