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Trouble tightening strut rod nut -- Special Tool 200

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posted by  lucid on  Sat Jan 23 02:14 CST 2010
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You need a tool to keep the strut rod from turning as you tighten the large nut. JCWhitney has such a tool HERE for $24.99, and pictured below:

It's used by putting one of the chrome adapters onto the specially formed top end of the piston rod, then dropping the black adapter down over the chrome one and onto the large nut to be tightened.
[I've sometimes had to file the strut top a bit to fit the chrome adapter. The ones that have a "racetrack" shape.]

The chrome adapter protrudes from the top of the black adapter, allowing it to be held with one wrench to keep the strut rod from turning as you tighten the nut with the black adapter and a second wrench. The torque spec in Bentley is only 15 ft lbs, but I usually make it "2-arm tight". There are no strong forces tending to loosen it, as I see it.



Also see THIS POST.


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