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Old 05-11-2014, 03:24 PM
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Two weeks ago I slid on wet pavement, hit a curb and the passenger side rear wheel snapped off the axle. The axle got replaced and I got my truck back last week. I just noticed today that every time I hit a bump in the road or anything like that I hear a fairly loud squeaking noise coming from that same side. I looked under the truck and there is fluid leaking from the shock. Should I not be driving the truck until this gets fixed? Sucks because I have a job interview tomorrow morning and its an hour drive from my house

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Lol. Its a bad shock. No big deal. Drive it till you can buy a new pair.
 
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30 minutes to o'Reilly and back home, 15 minutes per shock, 10 minutes for cleaning hands. You're good. Enough time till tomorrow. And o'Reilly has open till 9:00pm.
Have fun.
 
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It looks bent, but yeah, you can drive it not to worry.


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30 minutes to o'Reilly and back home, 15 minutes per shock, 10 minutes for cleaning hands. You're good. Enough time till tomorrow. And o'Reilly has open till 9:00pm.
Have fun.
HUH? 10min to clean your hands? Really?
I wear Nitrile gloves anytime I work on dirty/greasy stuff. I buy boxes of them. I got sick of scrubbing my hands years ago.
I remember when the mechanics at the Dealership would laugh at me for wearing them. This was about 12yrs ago. I went in a few years later to get some parts and every mechanic as wearing gloves..lol

I buy a couple of boxes of 100ct(light duty) and 50ct(Medium duty) every time I go to Harbor Freight. They cost $7 a box. Well worth it! I bet you spend more on Gojo hand cleaner and time than I do on gloves!
HF gloves aren't powdered so your hands sweat a little, but if I'm going to be wearing the medium duty gloves for a while, I have a tub of podwer I smear on my hands prior.
Napa has powdered gloves # SAS 6608 for $10/box and are a bit stronger/flexible than the light duty HF one's.
 

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Cool thank you guys for the replies. Now I know I can drive for this job interview lol!!
 
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I can see From Pics That Shock is bad and The Shaft is bent bad Need to Replace that shock
 
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I can see From Pics That Shock is bad and The Shaft is bent bad Need to Replace that shock
Sure. But not today.
Mechanics should've seen that before.
 
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Don't wait too long to replace that shock. A bad shock will cause cupping in the tire.
 
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2 pulleys are bad they said. Theres just no winning with me and this truck the past month lol.
 
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Originally Posted by dirtydog
It looks bent, but yeah, you can drive it not to worry.




HUH? 10min to clean your hands? Really?
I wear Nitrile gloves anytime I work on dirty/greasy stuff. I buy boxes of them. I got sick of scrubbing my hands years ago.
I remember when the mechanics at the Dealership would laugh at me for wearing them. This was about 12yrs ago. I went in a few years later to get some parts and every mechanic as wearing gloves..lol

I buy a couple of boxes of 100ct(light duty) and 50ct(Medium duty) every time I go to Harbor Freight. They cost $7 a box. Well worth it! I bet you spend more on Gojo hand cleaner and time than I do on gloves!
HF gloves aren't powdered so your hands sweat a little, but if I'm going to be wearing the medium duty gloves for a while, I have a tub of podwer I smear on my hands prior.
Napa has powdered gloves # SAS 6608 for $10/box and are a bit stronger/flexible than the light duty HF one's.
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What he said.
 


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