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okay just underneath the toyota tacoma here i'm about to replace the back shocks you can see it's been kind of wearing down on that side there and people say that you should replace your shocks are a fifty thousand miles you know it's always up for debate well this truck has about a hundred and sixty thousand miles on it though i figured it's about time you can see on this other shock as well it's been kind of wearing down anyway docks here the longer one goes on the left short one goes on the right it's a you know bound up right now just what makes it easier to put it on it's relatively straightforward comes all the bushings and stuff beginning and to put it in this on this truck i'm it's a seventeen millimeter bolt on the bottom at the top pretty simple to take off you know just undo the bolt make sure to press the new bushings into the little circle part where that will goes onto the bolts make sure they're evenly spaced around that side on this one I've already finished putting it in I just pressed the bushings in to either side of it and then put the new washer same old bolt it's got a little locking washer right here and then the same up on the top if you take on the tire obviously had more room to work but I was able to do it all the bolts are stuck too bad on this one I'll show you what I did to push the bushings in you can kind of see that it it's ribbed up in the center there and if you take the shore end of the bushing and push it in this side and the other end in this side then just get him to stay the farther in that they are farther preston that they are the easier it'll be to get him onto the bolt and to get the net in the bolt as well anyway so what i did is i took both the palms in the hands and i just press it against both those obviously it's kind of difficult while holding the camera if I line them up right and then use the palms of my hands to press them in all the way so obviously you kind of get the point on that channellocks what I'll see way of doing it it's kind of grabbing it just like that and pinching in one side at a time making sure they're both level you can say before the you know the tighter there in the easier it is to to put them on in the end so some reason you can kind of see along the edge of this bowl like it's all rested up a little bit this is where the the shocks at on so you may got to make sure to clean all that stuff off or else the other bushings aren't going to slide on very easily I'm with the top one I just hit it with the hammer a couple times I'm going to clean most of it off gonna see it up in there so that should be ready for the other bushing down there we go bull shocks are now on the truck whole process Brett took about 45 minutes hardest part is just getting them off and then getting them back on the bolts are when you put the bolts in it's kind of hard to give to reach the part where they screw in just because they're kind of short anyway it's about if you have any questions be sure to leave them in the comments I'm sure described as well usually put up you know one or two videos a week different car repairs usually dealing with you know tacoma's jeeps things like that anyway yeah thanks you