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Originally Posted by dbj216  Thanks for sharing your experience with this problem. My shock mount stud is about 1" diameter at the end welded into the axle bracket. It appears to be the same size stud welded into the frame on small end of the shock. I've tried grinding the weld off, but the weld penetration is good from the factory, as expected. It would take a lot of drilling to remove that much metal to get the stud free of the bracket.
Maybe I can find the correct shock mount stud, and then find a good welding shop. That would save machining a new one.
I hope Airstream is using all plated fasteners now. I think this minor maintenance job (replacing shocks) would have been problem free with good plated hardware that doesn't rust.
David |
I would place a call to Inland before putting a whole lot of effort in to machining and such. You might be able to take of this without quite as much effort as described.
And you're correct. It seems like nothing is ever as easy as should be when working on these things.
Regards,
Kevin