so offroading today at cleghorn, i started to hear a really nasty sound. stopped and looked, the top nut on the shock was missing, and the shock had fallen down in the spring and was floatting around and hitting the top plate.

managed to limp it home, didnt go over 30, didnt want anything catastrpohic happeneing.

it looks as if the wrong nut was put on, but i made sure to use the one that came screwed on the end out of the box. 100% sure on this. was tightened to spec, etc etc.

so my question is, HOW? and after someone answers taht for me, what to do next? do i try to bitch at tokico for a new shock? or do i just bite it and buy a new one? or should i replace both front shocks with something else/better?

btw, this is the tundra lift on the front of my 3rd gen. so i would be looking for tundra shocks.

 

was it stripped off or just missing? I had to re tighten mine like 10 times after I installed them

 

no stripped, i can feel the threads that have been torn off and are kinda still hanging there, alot like when you drill a hole in aluminium, ill get some pics of it when i can pull it apart, maybe tomorrow, more likely to be in several weeks.

 

i wonder if it just hammered itself off.

 

thats what i was thinking. maybe a bad nut or something. things like this happen.

im going to call steve at sonoran steel on monday, ask him his advise.

 

could it be possible that the nut came off a while ago and the stud has been sliding up and down through the mount causing it to look like it stripped off?

 

x2. i know that I had to retorq mine a few times untill it finally seated right.

 

ill get pics of it tomorrow when i have time to take it all apart.

im very confident it stripped off.

 

I had a similar but more dangerous thing happen--of the four Tokico shocks that came with my lift, one of the nuts the wrong size, which resulted in the coil and strut assembly shooting through the garage like a missile. I let Steve Schaffer know about the problem, but ultimately it appears to be Tokico's fault.

Here's my post.

 

wow, maybe this is a real problem with tokico.

ill let him know on monday, see what we can work out. ill likely just buy a new shock from him, since the other one only has a few hundred miles on it.

 

Man, just got my sets of trekmasters to be installed soon and I was reading these. Now i was thinking not use the nuts that came with them and use the old toyota nuts just to be sure and safe.

 

That is what I ended up doing and that is what I would recommend to others.

 

i hear this happens alot with tokicos....i just doubled nutted it~!

 

thats what ill be doing next time...

 

Locktite..it wont budge!

 

i dont think it vibrated off. when i checked the suspension on friday, it was well down on the shaft, with many visible threads.

 

Was there a jam nut on there? Just wondering?

 

no, no jam nut, just the nylock nut that ships with the shock.

 

That's wierd they would rely on a Nyloc to hold something like a shock?

 

Do you have the green shocks or the black ones? Green shocks have a limited lifetime warranty from Tokico. The boat also came in so they have replacement shocks to send you.