Youtube loves suggesting these Indian mechanic videos to me. It's pretty entertaining to watch but also cringe worthy. Reusing old shock oil? No problem...
Shock rebuild
Youtube loves suggesting these Indian mechanic videos to me. It's pretty entertaining to watch but also cringe worthy. Reusing old shock oil? No problem...
Shock rebuild
Wow. That's a lot of work to just re-use the old parts. They might as well have skipped the first 3 hours of work and just painted it.
Also, I could smell that video.
I strongly suggest the next time you think "I don't have the tools to do this job" or "I don't have the skills to do this job" that you look at some videos from the east.
They never fail to make me feel like a whining poser
Lobsterpennies said:I strongly suggest the next time you think "I don't have the tools to do this job" or "I don't have the skills to do this job" that you look at some videos from the east.
They never fail to make me feel like a whining poser
My favorite is the guys that have a bum clutch in a full size dump-truck/cargo-truck thing. They tear down the whole thing and at one point this guy f'ing "resurfaces" the flywheel with the engine running and an assortment of rocks he holds in his hand
The early 80s my dad and his friends ran a street stock, and the class had a rule that only stock or regular parts store shocks could be used. He would drill a small hole in the top of each shock, have me drain oil the oil out, replace it with heavier oil with a big plastic syringe, seal the hole with a screw, paint them, and get the cheapest shocks Sears had for labels to put on his rebuilt ones. I don't know if it worked but they all seemed proud of the idea.
Wally (Forum Supporter) said:The early 80s my dad and his friends ran a street stock, and the class had a rule that only stock or regular parts store shocks could be used. He would drill a small hole in the top of each shock, have me drain oil the oil out, replace it with heavier oil with a big plastic syringe, seal the hole with a screw, paint them, and get the cheapest shocks Sears had for labels to put on his rebuilt ones. I don't know if it worked but they all seemed proud of the idea.
We did this for a Lemons race. Drilled the shock, welded a nut to the body. Refilled with motorcycle oil and ran a screw with a copper washer into the nut. While not high-tech, they worked fairly well. Certainly better than parts store junk. Then someone gave us a used set of Tokico Blues. They worked much better.
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