Rear shock change today

[BadKarma]

Today I swapped my rear shocks for some bilstien 4600 open box from cjc Offroad. In all of the videos, I watched not one required an Allen key to hold the stem in place however, when I tried to tighten the top nut it seem to just spin and never actually tighten after about 10 minutes. I got frustrated. Yes, I have ADHD in 10 minutes probably seem like two but looking at the clock and realizing it was taking extremely too long I went and grabbed an Allen key put the Allen key in the top, and it tightened in a matter of moments.

 

[Poolmonkey]

Today I swapped my rear shocks for some bilstien 4600 open box from cjc Offroad. In all of the videos, I watched not one required an Allen key to hold the stem in place however, when I tried to tighten the top nut it seem to just spin and never actually tighten after about 10 minutes. I got frustrated. Yes, I have ADHD in 10 minutes probably seem like two but looking at the clock and realizing it was taking extremely too long I went and grabbed an Allen key put the Allen key in the top, and it tightened in a matter of moments.

When I put on the 5100s, the rears came with nylocks and the fronts with what I’ve always called “pinch nuts”……”lock nuts”..
I don’t know what they are really called but they are the ones pinched to prevent backing off akin to what nylocks do.
The nylocks went on easily enough while using the hex wrench, the others taxed the hex wrench and shock end to a near stripping condition.
Should have stopped and gone to get replacement nylocks but didn’t.

 

[Rockcrawlindude]

Sometimes they spin, sometimes they don’t.