Thread: Front lower shock mount chewed-out any common fixes?

The big issue with welding the hole down will be it will end up harder than your shock pins and you will start wearing the out - but its uick and easy and fixed for now!


I tells ya mr Toyota was onto something using a sleeved pin mount
change out the sleeve when the sleeve wears away - easy

Tojo guys who go after market dampers have the same problems as the landy in this post

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for the washer welding repairs...

once you have the bottom washer welded on you need to grind the surface of the plate back to flat so the washer you're going to weld over the top is going to sit down level and correct. then you weld the outside of the top washer down, and clean up that weld.

The welding in this repair method primarily locates the washer in place so the shocky doesnt roam around inside the oversized hole. yes you will loose some thread lenght but typically theres enough length to get you out of trouble. The vertical restraint of the shocky is preformed by the compression of the body washers against the rest of the metal in the original bracket by the shocky pin and nut.