Front shock problem!!! Top plate question

stumpjumper_09 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:02 am

The front of the libby started clunking today and when I looked at the strut assembly the strut was no longer connected and it appears that it has pulled through the plate!!! Has anyone else had this problem before? It's gonna try to hurt me real bad when I take it appart isn't it?

stumpjumper_09 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:32 pm

03CDKJ · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:38 pm

Tom says hook a chain to it and run like hell! :lol:

03CDKJ · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:42 pm

About the only thing you can do is use spring compressors to remove the assembly..
and a hockey mask, and body armor....
GOOD LUCK!

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:54 pm

is the shock stud no longer protruding through the hole? you can try compressing the assembly with a jack under the LCA

but please be careful

if you're lucky the shock stud will make it back through the hole in the top plate

blue locktite braww and nylon lock nuts ? still pulled through?

03CDKJ · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:13 pm

JeepinJarhead03 wrote:

is the shock stud no longer protruding through the hole? you can try compressing the assembly with a jack under the LCA

but please be careful

if you're lucky the shock stud will make it back through the hole in the top plate

blue locktite braww and nylon lock nuts ? still pulled through?

How is he going to get the nut back on after the stud goes back through the top plate?
You will still have to remove the assembly....

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:17 pm

if the nut was loose and spun off, then with his fingers...

i doubt the stud striped, plus you can hold the stud w...............

the stud/nut is between the face of the upper plate and the metal of the body isnt it lol....

roger that

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03CDKJ · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:20 pm

JeepinJarhead03 wrote:

if the nut was loose and spun off, then with his fingers...

i doubt the stud striped, plus you can hold the stud w...............

the stud/nut is between the face of the upper plate and the metal of the body isnt it lol....

roger that

Chris - 1
Jarhead - 0

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:31 pm

that would have easily been one of those moments out camping or wheeling where i would have drilled a hole in the body just to see if i could fanangle it back together

stumpjumper_09 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:46 am

The top plate is ripped through. there are pieces of it on the top of the strut

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:57 am

yeah you need to get a compressor and a ratchet strap on that thing before you try to take it out

stumpjumper_09 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:42 am

hook the quad to it and go like he!!

03CDKJ · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:45 am

So what did this 4" STUMP lift consist of?

stumpjumper_09 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:50 pm

Front:

3" rough ride skyjacker springs
Skyjacker shocks
Cut appart a OTT spacer to make 2- 3/8 shims
3 conduit clevis
Terra Flex extended bumps (not like it will ever compress that far!!)

JBA 4.5's

Rear:

Removed lower Iso
Installed Rustys 2.5" spacer
Rough country Lift springs
Rusty's garbage shocks.

= the 4" stump lift.

curt7088 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:08 am

note to self.... do not use 4" stump lift.... :jester:

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