green. steve, i was going to call you, should i contact tokico about this?

i have yet to pull the assembly apart, was forced to go back to school, just 2 weeks from finals. maybe this weekend ill be able to work on it.

 

I'll e-mail you the invoice from my distributor and you can turn it in for a warranty replacement.

I would then use a factory nut, part number: 94184-01241

The black heavy duty shocks we now use in the kits have this stock nut. They only carry a 1 year warranty versus the lifetime warranty of the Trek Master but they truly are an extremely heavy duty shock.

I'll send you that info off now.

Steve

 

thank you so much! you are the man!

 

ohh look i got pictures.... took me forever to get it off. what a pain in the ass...

looks more as if i got all the threads off the nut rather than taking them off of the shock.
should i still send in the shock?

heres a few others if you care to look, pics are huge though.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...s/100_0029.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...s/100_0026.jpg

 

how did it go? I know with that nut off the spring is not kept in compression, so was it dangerous to remove?

 

Send the shocks in for your FREE warranty replacement.

 

there was suppose to be a slight bit of sarcasm in that post, somehow it didnt come through the way i wanted. ofcourse im sending it in!! thanks so much for your help steve!

it looks like complete failure of the nut.

yes, very dangerious getting it out, i had to get a spring compressor in there to relieve enough pressure to remove the shock bolt on the bottom. problem was i could only get one on, so i compressed it as much as i could with a 24" breaker bar, then used a floor jack and a piece of wood to jack up the bottom of the lower spring mount on the shock enough to tap the bottom bolt out. when i did that it all flew apart, but luckly i had tied everything together, so it just shifted, nothing flew across the driveway and no one got hurt.

ill be shipping it out monday.

 

The most dangerous part is the nut threads on with ease. The thread pitch is correct, the inside diameter of the nut is too large, so it only grabs about 1/3 to 1/2 of the threads. You can't really tell until you thread the nut into place and you can feel the play as you pull up and down on the nut.

My assembly blew apart as we were releasing the spring compressors. We got lucky--no one got hurt and nothing in the garage was damaged.

I advise everyone to use the stock Toyota nuts with the Tokico shocks.

 

Tokico has a Manufacturing Defect on these shocks. If you obtained shocks from me in a lift kit between July and November of 2006 and want to send them back for warranty replacement contact me and I will send you the paper work.

As Ken stated I would use a Genuine Toyota Factory nut with the after market Green Tokico Trek Master Shocks. We no longer use the After market shock in the lift kits due to Tokico's after market Divisions inability to keep product in stock. The change had nothing to do with the product itself, but the divisions inability to stock the product in the United States. So we looked for a Tokico shock distributed by Toyota which has a far superior parts distribution network and boy did we find a winner. It is however twice the cost, the price of the kits went up noticeably but it is truly is a very heavy duty shock. This is the shock we currently offer in System 1.1, 1.51 and 7.1, it also matches the rear black Tokico Shock.

We used the Green after market Tokico Trek Master shocks for 4 months. July to November of 2006. We have been using the black factory shock now equally as long with zero issues. The blue Tokico TRD shocks distributed through Toyota that we used prior the the green after market Trek Masters also have no issues, but at $179.00 EACH retail, they are spendy. With features most people will not need and will never use.

If you have a kit that you purchased from Sonoran Steel between July and November of 2006 and want to Warranty the front After market Tokico Trek Master shocks, contact me and I will provide you with the paperwork needed to do so.

If you purchased green after market Tokico Trek Master shocks from someone else, you will need to contact that vendor and not us.

We do still use the Tokico After Market Trek Master shocks in our System 3 lift kits and they are sent out with brand new Genuine Toyota top nuts. I personally remove and throw away the nuts sent by Tokico.

 

Hum, looks just like what happened to one of mine.

 

Wish I would have seen this thread a day earlier. Just yesterday I had my front struts assembled/compressed at a local shop and I had them use the nut that came with the shocks. Guess I'll throw the stock toyota nut on top of that as a precautionary measure.

john

 

Well, I bought some green ones off of eBay in October 2006. I guess I am in the same boat. I still have my original stock ones with the old nut on them. I guess I need to do the same thing.

I guess the stock nuts will screw on fine?

 

I just put the old nut on top of the other one. I used some blue loctite that I had for good measure. I don't know if it needed to or not, but I have a little peace of mind now.

Steve mentioned defects a couple of posts up. Is the nut the only problem with these shocks, or are there other things?

 

Are the nuts that come with those shocks lock nuts with the nylon insert?

 

Yep, that's exactly what mine looks like.

 

Good info, I will make note of that when I do my setup.

 

sending in mine sometime this week. ill keep you up to date on what happens.

 

Mine just stripped off the drivers side yesterday night. Thanks for the info Steve, I will be contacting you soon.

 

you will need to either disconnect the balljoint, or get at least one spring compressor in there to get enough room to pull it out

 

Just got my replacement shocks from Tokico-that I had to buy and now ship my original ones back for a refund on them later. Their customer service is the worst, I will never buy another Tokico product.