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Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing and maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20 plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts, installed correctly, that's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the shocks on this '98 Ford Explorer, same as many trucks and SUVs. Although, you may not need to lower the spare tire like you do on this truck. For this vehicle, you'll need penetrating oil, 18-millimeter socket and ratchet, and 13- and 15-millimeter wrenches. You may not even need to raise your car off the ground, but a jack and jack stands might help. We're going to use some penetrating oil right there. You can see right here I put a jack underneath the axle. That's just to make sure when we disconnect the shock that that's not the last thing holding it and the rear end doesn't suddenly jerk down.
We've got a 15-millimeter wrench on here, and this is an 18-millimeter socket. Here, I went to the hand tools because actually the impact wrench didn't work as well as pulling with a big bar like this. The jack handle on this vehicle is missing, so I've inserted a long screwdriver right into this hole down here. It goes in and you turn it counterclockwise and that lowers the spare tire. You should be able to reach right in and pop that little bracket off. This probably has never been down from the car, so you whack and then push that up through, take the spare out. Now, with the spare out of the way, you can see right up in and get to everything really nice and easy. I'm just using a 13-millimeter wrench, reach right over the top and just got to do it a quarter of a turn at a time.
Unfortunately, it would appear that the only way to get to this one is with a 13- millimeter wrench as well. Make sure you get the wrench down on there as low as possible. I'll speed it up here. These bolts are ... they're not that hard to get to but they're just a ... you just take them off patiently, a quarter turn at a time. I've got a new shock from 1A Auto; it's got this catch on it. You can remove that. You can see it slowly comes out. Here's, obviously, the old shock on the right. I'm putting basically the same pressure on and the old one just goes right in, whereas the new one offers a whole lot more resistance. The new shock comes with new mounting hardware.
Actually, what I like to do is feed the bolts in from up top. Put the shock up in and just twist it. That holds the bolt steady. Put the nuts on. Super nice about that new hardware is now we can use an air ratchet and grab onto the nut ... or the bolt ... from the top with a wrench. Now that you have the bottom started, you can now tighten up the top. It's nice with the new hardware; you can use a nice long extension and a wrench and then tighten up the bottom. Tighten these up nice and tight. You can put your spare tire back up, and you're all set.
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I replaced all 4 shocks on my 2004 Ford Sportrac..big difference on the ride for good..shocks worked perfectly and install was good with all the proper hardware that was sent.
Perfect fit , rides much better
Replaced on a 2001 Ford Explorer Sports Trac. Old came off easy, new went in smooth. Perfect fit, no issues. Arrived quickly, so quick turn around. Greatly increased the ride. Reduced roll and bounce.
for around town good but not for off road
Arrived on time and in perfect shape, as usual ! I have no problem recomend Ing 1aauto.com for all your Auto parts.
I purchased a front and rear pair for a 2005 Ford Explorer Sport Trac XLS. Fit is great and the truck rides much better (typical daily driving...no offroading or anything like that). The only thing I didn't care for is the fact that the front set came with no hardware. Luckily we had some spare in the garage.
Fit perfectly
The parts that I bought from 1A auto.com are well perfectly fit , I'm so glad that I found the website. I don't hesitate to tell my friends if they want to save time and money.. most of all the best video I've ever seen on well explains I'm not a mechanic to begin with but I have learned a lot from it thanks you to the staff who made it possible for the other who would like to save time and money .. Mario from New Westminster BC Canada
