changing shocks running into one problem after another-help!
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Wuts a "stut"? Better fix your post before someone calls you on it. Oooops, too late!!! 
Some are just born stutterers... or is that strutterers? 
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This is getting real close to turning into a pissing contest, let's not go there. Adam, in the true sense of what a "strut" is, the 4th gen Camaro doesn't have em. A strut is a "support" part for the upper half of the suspension. Your cars are self supporting (upper and lower arms), with essentially a coil-over shock holding the front up. The term is misused, I spose because at quick glance it "resembles" a strut. No reason for either of you guys to get your nose out of joint about it, really. I can think of a number of auto terms that are used incorrectly, for instance flywheel instead of flexplate. Another one is using "freeze plug" instead of casting plug. Even though you can find them by name, the name and implication is wrong. Carry on.....nicely!
i agree with you to that it kind of like the whole tomato argument LOL. camaro69 the reason i call it strut is because i have always been told to how to distinguish the two . a shock ceases to be a shock when it becomes a structural part of the suspension. IE you can take a shock out of with out removing any other component of the car and the car will still support it self.
as for removing them i struggled with mine and ended up taking them to the shop. The mount on the top of both of mine had to be replaced because the were damaged. pretty much the nut on top was just rotted to hell and the shaft just spun. In the end im glad i let a shop do it becuase the took them apart in what seemed like an unsafe manner and getting hit in the head with a spring isn't a good way to end the day.
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i am done i just explaining my self and talking to camaro69. Im not the guy still egging the other one on like a little child still.
but fck it im out of here i kind of had enough of this place any way.
but fck it im out of here i kind of had enough of this place any way.
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From: under the hood
let's see if we can fianlly put this to bed
this is a strut
YouTube - ‪A strutting chicken‬‏
and this is a shock
YouTube - ‪Don't wiz on the Electric Fence‬‏
this is a strut
YouTube - ‪A strutting chicken‬‏
and this is a shock
YouTube - ‪Don't wiz on the Electric Fence‬‏