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TRQ suspension kits are manufactured using premium raw materials and coatings for extended service life. Each TRQ suspension component is designed to be a direct, maintenance-free replacement to the stock unit. To extend the life of your steering and suspension components, TRQ recommends replacing components in pairs, sets, or kits. All products are fit and road-tested in our Massachusetts R&D facility to ensure we deliver on our promise of Trusted Reliable Quality.
Product Features
Replacing struts used to require specialized tools to compress, remove, and transfer the old spring and mount. Our Pre-assembled, complete strut & spring assemblies come with all new parts and make the job much quicker and easier for the do-it-yourself mechanic.
Strut & spring assembly contains:
Our steering and suspension components are pre-greased and sealed for long life and do not require the extra maintenance typically required by greaseable versions.
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Hi. I'm Mike from 1AAuto. We've been selling auto parts for over 30 years!
Use a large pry bar or a flat bladed screw driver to remove the wheel cover. Just kind of slide it between the wheel and the plastic and pop it off. These lug nuts are a 21 millimeter socket. I'm going to use that and a breaker bar to loosen them while the vehicle's on the ground. Raise this part of the vehicle. We're using a two post lift, but you can use a jack and jack stands. The lug nuts are loose. I’m going to take my socket and finish removing them. I’m just going to hold onto the wheel and take the last lug nut off. It's going to be loose. You don't want to drop it. You can drop the lug nut. That's okay. You just don't want the wheel to fall.
I’m going to disconnect the sway bar link from the strut. Going to spray some rust penetrant on this upper sway bar mount. Use a wire brush to clean off some of the rusty bits. These can be difficult to take off, they get rusty and then the ball joint spins. It does have a hex spot here to put in a six millimeter hex drive. A lot of times that strips almost instantly as soon as you try to break it free ad you end up having to put vice grips behind to grab onto the ball joint, because there's no point here for a wrench. We’re going to do our best to get this one off without having to cut it off.
So this is 17 millimeter nut. Try to break it free first. See, it's turning, it's turning the whole ball joint with it. It's really tight. I’m trying to clean out any rust and dirt that's in this hex drive so I can get the hex drive to sit as far possible inside here, so it doesn't strip. Use some brake parts cleaner, I've sprayed some oil in there and I've been working the hex drive in to try to clean it out. I can see it's going in a little deeper, trying to get this sit as best I can. That's as far as it will go. Spray some more rust penetrant on there. I'm going to try to counter hold this hex drive while I free it with the 17 millimeter boxed wrench. We'll see how this goes. Sometimes you have to brace that against like the strut ad these just have so much – see, it's moving. That's good. It's really tight, though, so I'm just going to put that there. I'm going to spray some more rust penetrant.
These are typically self-locking nuts, so they're a little bit, they're not perfectly round. They're kind of oblong and that can make removing them difficult and also the rust gets gummed up in the threads. So I'm trying to spin this on and off to try to work the rust penetrant into the threads. So as I kind of expected, working these back and forth this hex drive they basically always strip. It's nearly impossible to remove them without these stripping, no matter what you do. So the next step I'm going to get some vice grips and try to hold the ball joint back here and use a 17 millimeter socket and ratchet and continue to remove this nut.
I’m going to try to slide these locking pliers behind the ball joint on the sway bar link. I’ve got a 17 millimeter deep socket on this longer ratchet, going to try to remove these. It feels like it's turning. One thing to mention if you're going to have to remove sway bar links for any reason or think you're going to have to remove them for any reason, you should have new ones on hand. They're almost a one-time use part.
If you're as lucky as us, you'll have to resort to power tools or a hacksaw to cut these sway bar links free. I'll do my best to avoid the strut, I don't want to damage that. I just want to kind of cut on the – going to try to find the narrowest part of the ball joint and the sway bar link. I think I'm on there.
I've actually gone in here. Because these sway bar links get seized on here so easily, I went in and cut the boot away, the rubber boot. So that I can get locking pliers in here to get a better grip on it and it's kind of working by holding it. I'm able to turn the nut out. Worst case if I get loose enough and it just keeps spinning, then I will take a saw and cut it right here. But I'm going to keep trying it right now with the locking pliers. Got it.
Here are our old sway bar links from our vehicle. You can see where I had to cut them. I was able to finally get this one out, but still, these have been destroyed by trying to remove them and you can see they're kind of rounded here. There's no real way to counter hold them to remove the bolts. They are supposed to have a hex drive in here. That strips out pretty quickly when you're trying to remove them.
Here's a brand new sway bar link this is from 1AAuto.com. These actually have a six-point on them so you can put a wrench on here and tighten them down and it's not going to spin on you and when you want to remove them to do other services, you can put your wrench over here and spin this off without destroying the ball joint and the sway bar link. So this should fit great and work great in your vehicle.
Put these up. Get this one up top. You can bend these around. Slide it through. These nuts are locking nuts, so the hole is not perfectly round. It's kind of oblong. So when this starts to tighten it will lock and it won't want to back off.
These nuts are 18 millimeter get this one set up here. The counter hold on the back is 18 millimeters. I'm going to use a deep socket 18 millimeter in the front. Get these snugged down and I'll come back and torque them. Torque for these sway bar links is 55 foot-pounds, and repeat it on the other nut.
Reinstall our wheel. It’s important to note these lug nuts have a taper. Taper meets the wheel and matches the inside of the wheel. Don't install them on the flat side like this; that is incorrect. Install them with the taper to the wheel. It helps locate the wheel on the lug nut stud. I'm just using the socket and ratchet to bring these down snug before I put the car on the ground. Torque the lug nuts to 76 foot-pounds, going in a cross pattern. Reinstall the hub cap. You’ve got to line up the opening for the valve stem with the valve stem on the wheel. Just push it in place.
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Hi, I’m Mike from 1A Auto. We’ve been selling auto parts for over 30 years!
Use the 21 millimeter deep socket and a breaker bar. Loosen the lug nuts with the vehicle on the ground. This way, the vehicle doesn't move on you. Raise and support the vehicle, remove the lug nuts, and take the tire and wheel off. We're using our lift, but you can use a jack and jack stands. Use the socket to remove the rest of the lug nuts.
See if this wheel comes free. It is a steel wheel. Of course, the rotor that is touching is also steel, so it's a good possibility that these have rusted together. Yeah, it's on there pretty good. What I'm going to do is pop this center cap off, take a large flat-bladed screwdriver, there's a little slot right here, and it'll pop right out.
This is the hub. Obviously, these are the wheel studs. There's a lot of corrosion and rust in here. That's basically where it's seized up. I will take some rust penetrant. I'm going to spray it along the edge here. I'm going to spray some into these lug openings to try and get some, hopefully, between the wheel and the brake rotor. Take two lug nuts. You can use one. I like to use two. Just thread them on real lightly, because now to get this free, I'm going take a large mallet, a dead blow mallet, and I'm going to hit on the tire and try to pop this wheel free. The lug nuts are on there so the wheel doesn't fall off. Sometimes it takes one hit, sometimes it takes 10 hits. You just got to hit it till it breaks free. Now, you take the wheel off and put this aside.
Now remove the sway bar link. It's attached to the strut and then to the sway bar down here. The way it's mounted up here with a nut and through to the ball joint part is the same exact thing here at the sway bar. It's just facing away. Once we remove this one, we'll do the same thing to this one. It'll just be harder to see. This is pretty rusty. I'm going to spray some rust penetrant on here. If you're trying to remove these to reuse them, that might be very difficult. You should have a new set of sway bar links on hand to replace, especially if you're doing the strut. You're most likely going to break them taking them off. It's just very common. You can get these from 1AAuto.com.
Spray some rust penetrant on here. Take a wire brush and just clean up the threads. Sometimes they have dirt on them. You might get some of the rust off. I just want to make it easier for this nut to spin off. This part in the middle to kind of hold it, it's really hard to tell, it looks almost rounded off, because this one is so rusted. It should be a 6 millimeter Allen key or a hex drive. I'm going to slide it in there the best I can. All right, now I'm going to counterhold it and try to remove the nut. It is coming loose.
What I'm going to do—it's starting to get tight, because it's filled up with rust and junk from the threads—I'm going to spray some more rust penetrant on it. I'm actually going to tighten it now. I'm just going to work it back and forth to try to get it over the rusty parts. This is pretty common. I'm trying to tighten this back down to work it back and forth and it's stripped. There's not much to this to try to put this hex drive in here and get it to not spin. It just doesn't fit that tight. It's real rusty. The metal's thin. Now, what I'm going to do—this is pretty loose. I could cut this off. If you had access to reciprocating saw, you could cut this off.
What I'm going to do is put some locking pliers back here and finish taking the nut off. There's a metal collar back here. Once I get this set to the tension I want, it should grip around it. It's starting to come loose. Just keep working at it. There it comes. There it is. Pull it out of the strut.
At this point, if you've had to use vice grips, it's pretty good chance you've destroyed this metal collar and possibly damaged this boot, and ripped it, and had grease come out of it. This one's not too bad, but it's pretty chewed up. These should be replaced. If you can get it out without damaging it, you can absolutely reuse it. If not, you'll have to replace it with new ones. The other one will be the same procedure. It's just difficult to see, because it's facing away from us.
Spray some rust penetrant on it and proceed to remove it. I can't get the hex bit on the other side of this. It's too rusty. I'm going right for the locking pliers. We'll get them on here, lock the end of the sway bar link, then proceed to remove the nut. It's starting to come loose. See if I can get it off with my fingers. Yep. There it is. It just takes time. You got to work at them. Pull it out with the locking pliers still attached. Again, this one's not too, too, bad, but if you've gotten to this point and you had to use locking pliers, they're pretty much destroyed and you should replace them.
Here's our original sway bar link from our vehicle and our brand new one from 1A Auto. Comes with new locking nuts. The nice thing about the new ones from 1A Auto is they do have a six-point end here, so that, instead of trying to put locking pliers on here, if you need to remove it, you can actually put a wrench on here and counterhold it while you remove it. It does not have a counterhold in here, because that can be pretty weak, and this is a lot easier over here. This will work great and fit great in your vehicle.
To reinstall this, we'll take off the supplied nuts. I'm going to put it back on in the same direction. It wasn't like this. It's not going to fit if you try to go that way. It was like this. It went in from the side, and then it went into the bottom part. You can start it in the bottom if that's easier. Let me do that, because you can see it better. Then, these do have a bit of flex to them, because it's a ball joint. You can push it down through the opening.
We've got the nut started. It's not perfectly round. It's oblong. It's a locking nut. You can thread it down, and then when it gets to the very, very, end, it'll start to get tight, because it's in the locking part. I'm going to get the bottom one started. The six-point part that's in the backside, and 18 millimeter wrench will fit it. Put that over here. The nuts on these is 18 millimeter. I'm going to use 18 millimeter socket and ratchet, and I will tighten it down. At the same time, I'll counterhold it so it doesn't spin. Hold this.
Add a little extension to give me some extra space. This can be hard to turn, but it because we're going over the locking part. We'll just tighten it up till it gets snug and come back and torque it. Switch to an 18 millimeter deep socket. You can always start with one of those. That's feeling tight, so I'll stop there, and tighten up the other one. The same for this one: counterhold it. Go in here and tighten up. Okay.
Get our wrench back on here to counterhold it. Use our torque wrench. Torque these to 55 foot-pounds. Once it clicks, it's all set. Do the same for the bottom one. Figure out the right way to get it in here.
To prevent the wheel from seizing to the rotor again, I can see the outline of where it was rusty, I'll put some copper anti-seize there, around the inside of the hub. I'm going to take this lug nut off. Reinstall the wheel. Thread the lug nuts on by hand. They do have a cone seat to line up the wheel. Tighten them down with a socket to seat them. Now you lower the vehicle to the ground and torque the lug nuts. I'm going to torque the lug nuts in a cross pattern to 76 foot-pounds. Now, you can reinstall the center cap, just clips into place.
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