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Originally Posted by rayfinseats

Yesterday I had a broken shock again in the front of my 90 1500. What a pain. I had to use a breaker bar, liquid wrench, cheater pipe, box end wrench and air impact. Since this is the second time a pot hole broke my shock I decided to change something.

I took (2) 1/2 inch grade 8 bolts about 4 1/2" long and cut them to length and drilled a 3/16 hole for a hitch pin clip on the threaded end. NExt time I have to replace a shock all I have to do is pull the pins and pop it in. This is way easier than fighting rusted hard -to-get-to bolts. Since the stress it all on the bolt and not the pin it should work fine. I'm gonna do them all like that on my 83.

Or.... you could just put anti-seize on the bolt threads. The road conditions shouldn't cause a shock to break though unless it's bottoming out. Is this on a stock height truck?