At  10/2/2005 01:50 PM, Raimund Feussner wrote:
>If you want to replace the shock, use the hacksaw.
>Usually, the nut on the shock is covered by a plastic cover, preventing
>it from rusting. But on most of the Vanagons, the cover is missing and
>causes the nut to rust tight. Bad engineering (again)...
>
>Raimund

When I worked at the front end shop I changed a lot of shocks, the
spinning nut is the usual. I'd guess that mean everyone has this "bad
engineering" problem.
FWIW an impact sometimes did the trick and other times we just cut it.

Rob
becida@comcast.net