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    Question Lowering VT please help

    Lowering my vt. The drivers side strut tower nut (top) wil not come loose.
    What do you guys recommend using to undo it?

    Is it 22mm or 23mm?
    and when I try to undo it without holding the shaft, it turns the whole lot

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    nut is 24mm ive undone mine with rattlegun or you can hold the top with 10mm then undo the 24mm

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    Quote Originally Posted by shiften gears View Post
    nut is 24mm ive undone mine with rattlegun or you can hold the top with 10mm then undo the 24mm
    I tried holding the top... 10mm was too small 11mm was a bit big but held it.

    so its definetly 24mm for the nut? the shifter I was using that was starting to strip it read 23mm? I dont trust shifters though..

    Air rattle gun at this stage isnt an option as everything else is off except the strut nut lol and I dont have a compressor on hand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shiften gears View Post
    yep 24 ring spanner if you got one
    Thanks

    lol The reason I ask is that I moved to vic with the missus and all my tools are in Brisbane at my old mans.
    Biggest spanner I have here is a 15mm hahaha
    Needed to know the exact size so I can walk up to the hardware tomorrow and pick one up

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    get a 10mm socket bashed onto the strut, then get a shifter on the nut :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by don0xer View Post
    get a 10mm socket bashed onto the strut, then get a shifter on the nut :P
    lol its all good now.. I was walking back from the hardware store (which had no 24mm spanners anyway) and stumbled accross RACV working on a broken down ford. I asked him if he could undo it so he drove me home and did it on the spot for free haha
    Im not even with RACV

    I was using a shifter on the other side (which undid) but it was stripping the side I couldnt turn.

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