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Old 07-09-2007, 12:51 AM   #1
kevinr1970
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Mounting JDM front shocks

So I bought some JDM front CalMax shocks for my '06 GMC.
I tried to instll them yesterday but for the life of me couldn't get the top "shaft" to poke through far enough to get the nut started.
I tried to get a C-clamp on both sides of the rubber grommets but even then I couldn't get enough of the shaft through to see any threads.
Holding the stock shock and the new shock side-by-side the JDM shock shaft is probably 1-1/2" shorter than the stock shock. I checked the numbers stamped in the shock body against the website to make sure they didn't send me the wrong ones.
Is their some special tool required I just don't have?
Any one else have this problem?
Also, I didn't read the reviews of the shocks on the Stylin'Concepts website until I was double checking the numbers but their was only three reviews and they all seemd to be pretty bad. Did I just buy some lemon shocks?
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