Ford Explorer: installing new shocks

Just brought 4 monroe reflex shocks and I plan on putting them on this
weekend. I have read in previous post about the stud on the radius arm
breaking off during installation of new shocks. Does anyone have any
tips on how I can avoid this from happening? Does is break taking off
or putting on?


BTW, monroe has a buy 3 shocks get 4th one free, ends on 10/31, so
hurry.

On 30 Oct 2003 08:16:37 -0800, com (crash) wrote:
 

I think the main reason people had the studs break was because they
lived in a snow area and had a lot of rust. If you don't have a rust
problem you should not have any problem with the stud. Most likely
they broke while being taken off while they were trying to loosen the
rusted on nut.