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Summary: A corrosion mark will indicate where upper mounting nuts go. Learn how reinstall upper mounting nuts when replacing front struts on a front-wheel drive vehicle in this free car maintenance video from an automobile repairman.
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Nathan McCullough Nathan McCullough graduated from Nashville Auto-Diesel College with a GPA of 3.5 and received their Craftsmanship Award and Honor Seal. Nathan has managed sev... read more
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Questions & AnswersIn this clip, we're going to talk about the proper service procedure for removing and replacing a front strut on a front-wheel drive vehicle. In this step, we're going to talk about the proper service procedure for aligning our upper mount and remounting it. As you can see, there is a little nipple here. That nipple is going to point out, away from the vehicle, straight to the tire. We're going to want to line that up with the center of our strut mount portion that goes to the spindle. Just like so. Once you have these aligned, you're ready to mount the upper portion. Now on the body of the vehicle, there will be a corrosion mark which will indicate where this part goes. As you can see, we have a corrosion mark from where our upper mount seats to the body of the vehicle. And what we're looking for is an indicator tab. That will let us know the proper alignment for installing our new strut. As you can see, there is a little dimple right here. That's what we're looking for. There will be a corresponding dimple on the mount. We're going to want to make sure to line those two up when we install it on the vehicle. I'm going to go ahead and slip it up inside the vehicle and starts with my nuts on the top. Just like so. I'm going to take and hold onto a coil and grab one of my nuts and get it started on there. Alright, I'm going to go ahead and tighten them down. We'll use a x pattern for torquing this down. They don't have to be extremely tight, you can break them. Right there is good. I'm going to jump all the way across to this one and perform an x pattern. What that will do is ensure that it seats nice and flat to the inside surface of our suspension tower. Jump over here. And then diagonally across to complete our x pattern. And there you go. That is the proper service procedure for aligning and remounting your upper strut mount.
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