Well, I need to change the shocks on my S-10 Blazer. So I bought the shocks and put the trunk up on jack stands. 4 hours latter I have one rear shock off. Then I start on the other rear shock. The bolts on top of the mount towers are the problem, you need to reach up and over and hold a 13mm wrench on the bolt, while needing two hands on the ratchet to remove the rusted nut.
Now a little simple math will tell you that most of us are an arm short. Back in the days when I co-owned a shop I would run it up on the lift and just blow the nuts off with a torch and replace the nut and bolt with new ones. However these days I have to lay on my back under the truck in the apartment parking lot. So it is a beach reaching up there. Anyway to make a long story short, I lost my grip on the 13mm wrench. Apparently it fell down between the gas tank and the gas tank skid plate. No problem you say? Just pull off the skid plate? Well, I would, but it takes a 13mm wrench... So I will have to make a trip to the store tomorrow for another wrench, and while I am at it I will get some new bolts and nuts too. -graywolf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
