Tools for changing front struts...?

[muddyboots]

OK...I've bought the tool for releasing the strut from the hub, but is there a special tool to help undo the top mounting nut ?

Are they an outer nut with a hex socket in the end of the damper rod ?
If so I've learnt my lesson before - a socket held as tightly as possible with molegrips and an allen key through the middle is a bit of a pain in the arse...

I suspect there is a proper tool to do this on the Mk4 ? Any part nos or links ?

 

[cheshire cat]

Muddy, on a recent job on a Mk3 Golf with it's original and rusted up top nuts a cheap 12V impact wheel nut gun got me out of trouble, mole's and a large stilson were useless

 

[Ol' Timer]

Are these any help?

http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/s.nl/sc.9/category.200/it.A/id.7030/.f

http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/s.nl/sc.9/category.1817/it.A/id.26869/.f

 

[muddyboots]

Are these any help?

http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/s.nl/sc.9/category.200/it.A/id.7030/.f

http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/s.nl/sc.9/category.1817/it.A/id.26869/.f

I don't know - has anyone else changed the front struts and know what the top nut arrangement is like ? I'd have a look but it's too fecking cold outside

 

[m0rk]

impact guns are a last resort.

7mm allen key & a sparkplug socket works for me.

however - removing the strut out of the bottom of the hub is harder work.

 

[muddyboots]

Hadn't though of a sparkplug socket - presumably one with flats on that you can grip with a spanner...
Do you know what size fits the Mk4 strut top nuts m0rk ?

 

[m0rk]

sorry, not got a mk4 ibiza to hand.

probably 22mm

 

[muddyboots]

sarky git - thought you'd done some on a Mk4

 

[m0rk]

yeah - I have, but the tools are many, and the memory vague

I could measure it though.

 

[muddyboots]

That would be nice
The tool that is...
No I mean the socket

 

[mrcoyote]

Use an adjustable spanner to get the top mounts off. Easy when you know how.

 

[Triple D]

Just remember not to clamp the strut piston with molegrips or anything else for that matter as if it scrathes or scores it then the scratch or score will break the seals and then the oil will leak out and the shocks will be shagged.