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On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:31 PM, B Feddish <bfeddish@netreach.net> wrote:

> I got the shocks in this morning. Thanks for everyone's help.  The rear
> ones
> were a joke, about 10 minutes apiece. The fonts ones OTOH...
>
> Question. The passenger side took forver to get that top nut off and then
> get that plastic sleeve off. I put the old plastic sleeve on the new shock
> and there was a brass sleeve that was on the shock so I left it there. When
> I installed the shock the top of the shock did not protrude as much as the
> old one. On to the drivers side shock, the top nut came off in seconds. The
> plastic sleeve dropped right off.  When I went to put the new shock in the
> plastic sleeve, which looked a little different then the one on the other
> side, the brass sleeve made it impossible to put the plastic sleeve back on
> so I left it off. What is that sleeve for?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
>

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Beverley Anne de Villiers   April 20, 1930 - July 4, 2009

Jake

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