Monroe "Quick Strut"-not so quick

Shift518 Automotive
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Knowing that I’d have at least an hour free tonight at work, I decided to change my shock/strut assy’s. Remove front RH side, start to install the new one, and I need to enlarge the holes in the tower. No big deal. I get a 13/32" drill and go to town. Install the strut, and the fucking nuts that they provided are the same size/pitch as the OEM (smaller ones):retardclap. Ended up having to find some nuts that were close in size, and tap them out.

So I move on to the other side, remove strut, enlarge the holes, and the replacement for the LH side is the same size stud as OEM:retardclap. Whatever, both sides had already been enlarged once in the past.

Just a heads up. I inventoried the parts before I did the job, but I didn’t go as far as to take the nuts out of the bag and check the sizes.

Cliffs-Strut didn’t even wanna let da nuts on

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nuts on the struts dick in the spring compressor??

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so you gonna replace the gangster door handle now that the corolla has some fresh struts.

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Not only no…HELL NO!

You got Paypal.

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First word in thread titled denoted the imminent failure that was to soon follow. Should have heeded that warning

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Permanent fix was drilling/tapping 3/8"x16 nuts to M11X1.5 (very uncommon size). BOGUS.

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LOL wow i had a hard enough time finding a nut for my strut a lil while ago with the right pitch.

I woulda kicked babies into a well of water if i had the same issues as you trying to get them on

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It’s bullshit. I did it at work and luckily we had a metric tap/die set, and some spare hardware lying around.

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yea lucky shit, where you work at these days? car shit or airplanes ?

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Customs and Border Protection in Plattsburgh. Reason for having the metric tap/die set is the french helicopters we have. Dude, we are so overdue to party it’s not funny. Are you going to GNR Nov 23?

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where at ? Yeah i havent partied in hella long time dude, getting old quick.

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Times Union. Shit’s gonna be redic. I know Jammer has tickets.

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word ya ill prolly make it man