I've read the FSM, but after stripping a the threads out of nut, I'm wondering if there's a typo. The bolt in question is the lower front shock mount/sway bar end link. The FSM says 120 ft-lbs, but the threads were gone before I hit that. Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

Impact gun tight.

 

So are you trying to tighten the bottom half of the end link or the bottom half of the shock?

 

Impact gun tight is a bit vague. Mine supposedly goes to ~150 ft-lbs.

victor0206- I'm trying to tighten the big 19mm nut in the middle:



As it is now, the threads pulled out of the OE nut and I'm waiting on a new endlink from O'Reilly.

 

I literally just finished replaced one of my front shocks (next one done next weekend).

And that black bracket you have arrows to I could not for the life of me get more than 3 bolts back in it!

So the 3 on the right are in, the far left one is slightly offset, making putting the nut back in impossible.

I've raised and lowed the suspension with a jack with no luck to repositioning the hole.

any ideas?

 

I'm guessing either the nut was defective or I minutely boogered the threads on the bolt enough to cause damage, but it looked OK. Either way, a new Moog end link was the solution. The drivers side was totally fine with the OE link.

As far as getting everything lined up is concerned, I found keeping everything slightly loose helped dramatically (including the three nuts on the upper mount). The black bracket on my car moved a few mm when loose, and went in without much issue. I also dropped the sway bar bushing mounts, which really freed up the main lower bolt. Good luck!