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Offline danmusic24

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top mounts front and back
« on: 12 July 2016, 21:19 »
how tight do you need to tighten these up? is a impact gun to much? bit of a pain using allenkey and spanner??

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Re: top mounts front and back
« Reply #1 on: 12 July 2016, 23:28 »
Allen key and spark plug nut (so you can stop shock absorber piston from spinning) with spanner.
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Offline Simeon

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Re: top mounts front and back
« Reply #2 on: 13 July 2016, 12:03 »
Meh, I just gun them on, always have, not had any issues.

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Re: top mounts front and back
« Reply #3 on: 13 July 2016, 21:37 »
Yeh I gun them on a middle setting. Our impact gun has snapped a top of a strut once...