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Our direct fit gas-charged strut assemblies help to restore your vehicle’s handling and ride quality to just like new.
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Brought to you by 1AAuto.com. Your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet. Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto Parts. I hope this how to video helps you out and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1aauto.com. Thanks.
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the rear shocks on this 2003 Honda Odyssey; same for any 1999-2004. We show you the right hand or passenger side rear and the driver side or left hand rear is the same procedure. Tools you'll need are jack and jack stands to raise and support the car. You will also need a 17-mm socket and ratchet, as well as either a 19-mm socket or your lug wrench.
First, raise and support the vehicle then use a 19-mm socket and breaker bar. If you're just using hand tools, actually, you'll want to loosen the lug nuts when the wheel is on the ground and the vehicle is in park. Loosen the lug nuts first, then raise and support the vehicle. Remove the five lug nuts and remove the rear wheel. So you see my wrench is on the top of the shock absorber. Just spray some Anti-Seize or penetrating oil in there, and then do the same thing down here for the bottom. All right. Speed up here as we loosen that bolt. Don't take it out all the way yet. You can see it requires some force, but you should be able to do it with a regular ratchet handle. Again, fast forward as we loosen, and then we will remove this bolt.
Now back up to the top. Remove the top bolt the rest of the way. And now reverse the procedure, re-install. Use a hammer. Tap the bottom of the new shock onto the shock mount on the bottom. Now, use a jack to lift the suspension just a little bit to line up the top mounting hole and once you get it lined up, then slide the bolt in and start tightening it up. We'll fast forward. You may have to tap lightly on the bolt to get it going and then push firmly on it to start it and then tighten it up nice and tight. Then thread the bottom nut on and tighten that up as well. Both these should be around 65 to 70 foot pounds.
Now I'm going to fast forward to put the wheel back in place. Start all five lug nuts on by hand first and then just kind of preliminarily tighten them and then lower your vehicle to the ground. Now set your torque wrench to 90 to 100 foot lbs and torque the wheel using a star pattern. Whenever you have the brakes apart, just make sure that you pump the pedal a few times. Make sure it's nice and firm. And then before you road test your vehicle, just do test stops from 5 and 10 miles an hour just to make sure the brakes are working properly.
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If your vehicle's equipped with a locking lug nut, you're going to want to have it ready. Get it to fit on there. These are 19-millimeter. Take our breaker bar, we'll loosen them up, about a half turn. Once you've loosened your lug nuts, raise and support your vehicle. We're going to use a lift for this, so to make it easier for you to see what we're doing, but you can do this on jack stands in your driveway. These are pretty loose now. Going to take my socket in my hand and undo them with my hands. I'm doing the last one. Just make sure you've got hold of the wheel. It might come loose. This one came off pretty easy.
To remove the shock, I'll start with the upper bolt. This is a shoulder bolt that goes all the way through into the body. You can kind of feel it up in here. We'll spray it with some rust penetrant. I'm going to use a 17-millimeter socket and a breaker bar. Push it up. That feels like it's free. I want to loosen the bottom bolt so the shock stays in place. It doesn't fall out on me. Take some rust penetrant, spray it on this bottom nut. This is 17-millimeter. Use our breaker bar again. I'm going to switch to a ratchet now that it's loose. Now with it loose but the nut still on, I'm going to take a pry bar and make sure it's free. Can finish removing this nut. I'll take the pry bar again. Finish removing the upper bolts. Sometimes you have to pull out as you're ratcheting and work the bolt out.
I'm going to try to compress this a little bit. Just push it. I'm just going to go down like this. We reach down to the bottom. It's already loose. I'm going to reach down to the bottom. It's already loose. If it doesn't want to come off, grab my pry bar again. Slide the shock out.
Here's our old shock from our vehicle. You can actually see some oil coming out from underneath, so this one was leaking. The oil up here is from when we were removing it. This is the rust penetrant oil, but this oil was here before, so it means the seal up in here is leaking. It's leaking some oil out. Here's the new one from 1AAuto.com. Let's see. It's the exact same length, same shock mounts upper and lower, similar dust cover. This should fit great and give you a good ride.
I'm going to compress this shock by just pushing it together myself. You can feed it up, set on the lower mount, and we'll just let it expand on its own. As it expands, I'm just going to put the bolt in. If you need to raise it, which we might, we're going to place a floor jack under here to jack it up. So that the shock doesn't slide off this lower mount, I'm going to reinstall the nut and the washer just loosely for now. You can use a floor jack if you're doing this on the ground on jack stands. Since we're on a lift, we're going to use this screw-type jack. I'm just going to lift up on the lower control arm, and it's just going to get our shock mount. As I turn up on it, it's going to get our shock mount to line up here. The bolt has got a point on it, so it's going to go in, sort of self-center and get it started.
Take my 17-millimeter socket and ratchet, start to tighten it down. I will bring this down until it gets tight. Now we can re-tighten the lower one. Just make sure you torque the shock with the vehicle at ride height so the suspension is loaded. You torque the top bolt to 47 foot-pounds, the lower nut to 47 foot-pounds.
Reinstall the wheel. Thread the lug nuts on by hand. 19-millimeter socket and ratchet, I'm going to snug these lug nuts. With the torque wrench set to 80 foot-pounds, torque your lug nuts in a star pattern.
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