Best way to remove the shock?

The bolt should come out in the socket. Then I took a telescoping shop magnet and stuck in on the hex end of the bolt. Then I used something to push on the bolt from the nut side until it was out enough that I could fish it out using the magnet.

LeFrog said:

Wel I don't have a magnet but I am sure I can find a different tool to do that...

I am more afraid of losing the bolt, actually, I don't see myself removing the swingarm and shaking it to recover the darn bolt.

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It'll be a good excuse to grease your swingarm bearings! :twisted:

Tape a magnet to the end of a pencil.......Oh, never mind.

If I can do this anyone can. The bolt actually does not get away very far, even when it drops off the allen socket, I stuck a fridge magnet to a long screwdriver to retrieve it from inside the swingarm. I took my shock off to replace the battery.

Joel

You may have to leverage the shock against the swingarm. I had to do this the first time I took the shock off of my bike. There's nothing holding the shock onto the swingarm it's just being stubborn. I was going to take the swingarm off and grease the bearings anyway so I took the swingarm and shock off together then I took the shock off of the swingarm.

I used a shallow socket to do the loosening, with the allen driver in place on the other side.

I used the allen driver on a extension(bolt head side) to spin the nut off keeping the socket still so the nut would stay in the socket (pull socket out sloooowly)

Take a pencil :twisted: no actually a long skinny driver to push the bolt through keeping pressure to keep the bolt head on the allen driver out it comes

The swing arm needs a bump to free the shock

when putting the shock back on attach the top first and let the wheel swing arm weight act a a lever to bump it back into place

put the bolt back through then using the nut in the socket to HAND TIGHT at first spinning slowly the socket at the end of an extension... remember hand tight, it will take only 2-3 turns at most then it will ht the nylon insert of the nut and require pressure (normal for Nyloc nuts) tighten back up.... do not over tighten the nylock is what stops it from backin out......