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Well, as some of you may have read in the Tailhina thread, when I got back from the ride I found both of my air shocks leaking. I spent a couple of days trying to decide if I would replace them with Progressive Suspension’s 412’s or their 416 air shocks. Much research on this site and numerous others didn’t give ma a clear cut answer so this morning I called Progressive and ask their tech help what they would recommend for my XJ,. Expecting (and probably hoping) that they would recommend the 416 air shock, much to my surprise, and my wallets thanks, he told me the 412’s are a better, and more reliable (longer lasting) shock. I saved enough by that to get their progressive fork springs and still saved about one hundred and some odd dollars to boot!
But, I still want to figure out how to get these original shocks apart! I took the snap ring and beveled washer off, made a puller out of heavy walled tubing, a pivioting clevis at the end of a ¾” threaded rod going down the end of the tube through a plate with a ¾” nut welded to the center of the plate, plate welded to the end of the tube. Put the clevis (made of 3/16 plate) over the bottom clevis of the shock with a 3/4" bolt through both, welded a 24” cross bar to the end of the threaded rod, Stuck the whole thing in my heavy vice, and danm near got a hernia! I twisted (like one end turned while the other didn’t) the threaded rod with out the shock giving any! I must have put about 250 foot pounds of tork on that puller and did nothing but ruin the allthread.
If it wasn’t for the fact that I’d like to be able to put new seals in these and use them again someday, I’d take a band saw to one of them to see what is holding it together.
Louis
It looks like brute strength ain't working here, just ignorance.
But, I still want to figure out how to get these original shocks apart! I took the snap ring and beveled washer off, made a puller out of heavy walled tubing, a pivioting clevis at the end of a ¾” threaded rod going down the end of the tube through a plate with a ¾” nut welded to the center of the plate, plate welded to the end of the tube. Put the clevis (made of 3/16 plate) over the bottom clevis of the shock with a 3/4" bolt through both, welded a 24” cross bar to the end of the threaded rod, Stuck the whole thing in my heavy vice, and danm near got a hernia! I twisted (like one end turned while the other didn’t) the threaded rod with out the shock giving any! I must have put about 250 foot pounds of tork on that puller and did nothing but ruin the allthread.
If it wasn’t for the fact that I’d like to be able to put new seals in these and use them again someday, I’d take a band saw to one of them to see what is holding it together.
Louis
It looks like brute strength ain't working here, just ignorance.
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