 Hey guys Two three four days came went by Working on the rear struts remember gotta make them fit So this is what I got going on this the slide hammer ten pound slide hammer one lock nut here Just to hold the knuckle down because remember this side. It's still connected to all the different control arms Swaybar link and all that's good stuff. I got the new strut in well just you know kind of in there And here we can see What I still got to do so I did a Bit of drilling out all three holes And I still got ways to go you can see this one is whale can't even so I can see it kind of There you go. You can kind of see it. So what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take this out the strut again And then basically drill out evenly every single one out You know each way each one out To where the washer ends you can see Or the you know the old bolt and that should give me more or less The space that I need now you still you do need to drill out each one Don't just be doing one like this side this one for example Because this needs to be centered. Okay, you can kind of see Trying to get the right angle You see that now if I were to keep on or actually drilling this on this one out that way Then this would not clear The strut the the body Over here. So they need to be drilled out evenly and this is what I'm what I'm using it's kind of dull, but that's all I got and You know, it's working slowly, but it's it's working and I gotta be super careful I mean, this is there's a lot of sharp edges. I nearly cut myself Five times. I mean even even my legs, you know, they're my hands here. This job is hazardous. I gotta tell you Alright, here we go again As you can see still got a little bit to go now, this is almost like this needs to still go Inside towards the inside So I want to keep on drilling here and here. I'm sure with the finished product check it out. I Actually spent about two minutes extra two minutes I'm looking for these rusty washers so You know the car kind of accepts it doesn't think that it's foreign objects This is the bottom now I can tell you one thing that these Struts are a little bit Wider here. So meaning the knuckle on the new wear in presence is a little bit fatter Which is no biggie and you know the bolt just squeezes it no issues there. So this is it rear left officially done nice and did remove the The top deck material thing the drilling out was just so much easier. I actually started drilling from the inside Right up there. You could do it. No issues. Just it's just a little bit easier from up top the drill fit right in in between the The glass and the bottom here. All right some progress got some stuff KYB KYB KYB Made in USA They usually are made in The USA or Japan You do sometimes see them made in You know, you know, you know where Got the right side nice, okay, let's compare so these are From the old six and preso all right, let's see KYB XLG the better KYB's and this says do not open Okay, maybe you will say all right. We're good So basically what needs to happen? need to switch and This one has what they both do fifty four thousand on them. So top heads Are in pretty good shape Problem with this one is but it's bent Right here, but you know, that's the strut obviously All right Guys if you're doing something like this Get yourself one of these This is the McPherson strut spring compression compressor compressor set By Maddox good stuff from Harbor Freight But it's actually pretty good been using it for I don't know two three years now and no sign of Sudden failure this might not be not okay, right It'll be a little tricky here That's obviously not enough there we go to 19 sometimes the Top mount will be in the way of the socket. So you got to switch it, you know Play around with it. Okay, so that's good and the others the other side Just gonna sit for this one. Hopefully This side will be enough. Okay, it's fine very too much because it's resting on here actually Squashed it a little bit. We may have trouble putting it back on a new one We shall see so now we can take off the top nut and now that's it There's a bearing inside. That's why it turns sometimes these these cheap online quick struts, you know Like a full assembly if you want to replace it on your car and you want to go cheap Sometimes even a rock auto usually Amazon and stuff like that. They don't the ones on the on the front They will not even have bearings inside Inside the mounts. They only have like kind of washers even plastic washers and they go bad in a few weeks guys Just stay away Okay, get KYB even some Arno, Monroe's or Durales, you know stuff like that. Just stay away from From online cheap cheap stuff. Okay, you should probably pay for a whole assembly Maybe 150 bucks that that's the cheapest. I mean absolutely cheapest from a store online You can get them for 50 bucks stay away from those because you're just you're just asking for trouble And you're gonna be spending money twice. Remember Also got to do alignment after a job like this right mount Some kind of washers. I like to just Put these in order Okay face down Keep the Rubber dust thing Bump stop and This is a spring new guy. Oh forgot something I think No Thought there was a a Rubber piece on the bottom, but no there isn't so there's a special spot for the end of the spring Hopefully this fits over the tool Nice. Okay. This is actually could be a little smaller Bump stop dust shield cover Ah This and I'm sure there's a name for this guy Put it on the in the comments if you know the name of this this part Washer mount and Zanat That's I'm sure of it. It's a different size Of course, it's a 19 no longer a 17. Okay. Now we need to align everything Especially this guy the spring is angled remember So it's not going to be that easy. I have to undo that not a little bit. You can see the old Spring was here Come on now work with me. Nice and tight should be good for Uncompressed the spring check the rubber if it's not pinching pinched anywhere. Okay, we're good. I'm gonna check my work Okay, now that the top nut, I know, you know Torque it down if you want to I never do what I do is I grab onto the There's the strut I'm holding it so I can feel if it spins or not. Sometimes it will spin Usually old ones if you're trying to take the nut out they will spin inside So this is just to tell me when I'm done once I'm done, but usually just you know all the way You want these come and loose usually the The torque on these are probably about 60 Around 60 at least on co-loaders and these could be more we did scratch it up a little There's just no way around it but No play here This one is ready to get installed So because this is rated for a heavier vehicle I think I mentioned that before which is the old six in Crescent. It's going on the old one RS The 300 pound difference should make that car and the RS sit higher and have a stiffer suspension Obviously, so as you can see this strut is in a BS line is in Maybe a sensor line Not that it matters because it doesn't work ABS. So I'm pretty much done except one thing One thing the brake hose It's different This old style had this kind of clip Now you shove this In here and you'll drive the clip in and you're done not in my case. It just it won't work No, and this is important fellas. Okay You know snow ice whatever gets in here May break this loose and you're gonna have a flopping around brake line brake hose Not good. It may break. So I was thinking All right, I'm just kidding guys. Okay, two zip ties should be plenty. No joke So that's already clean So just clean this out from old grease got some new grease I'm gonna apply and then we're gonna turn our attention to the the CV joint Which has a a pin like this that dries through that What do we call that thing actually those do not come out sometimes they do There is either a circlip on the inside of transmission or Sometimes they do actually come out. I don't know what years now I have no idea and the way to install these as you can see this is the this end goes into the transmission once you obviously you got a You know pointed in the right direction So you can drive this pin right through and one end is tapered. The other is flat See this this goes in first and this secures the drive shaft or the CV axle from coming out That's pretty much it for this one. All right, let's put some music on and speed through this We'll struggle actually pulling the knuckle towards the the strut here the top bolt hole I was actually using a slide hammer because it's longer. I can I could have you know attached it to here and Basically lift it and I had to help my wife put the bolt through and that was it. I did take The back plate Out That's it really still gotta do alignment, you know Align it a little bit. So the steering wheel is straight and now that I look at it. I Don't gotta do squat I'm gonna leave it like that. Just tighten up this nut here. This is a 19 both sides And this is pretty much done. Well, yeah, still gotta obviously tighten these up