BP 51

[BIC JET]

Bolt is M12x1.25, 25mm long total, with a 3.6mm washer so about 21mm thread exposed. Torque is 72ft-lb.

Yes Lexus and toyota same part. I wouldn’t count on a dealer having them though.. might need to go to a bolt warehouse.

There isn’t a lot of forward thrust on that connection so if you can get the eyelet over the post you could probably get it to stay put for road driving with some liberal heavy duty zip tie use pulling it back against the lower shock mount extension.

Thanks, Sewell Lexus had the part in stock. My wife is grabbing it and driving it out to me so I can get it to the local dealer to make the repair.

 

[82SC]

Usually you are supposed to tighten and torque the bolts that have bushings once the truck is on the ground.
I wonder if that’s the mistake they made. Finger tightening the hardware and putting the truck down on a level surface. And forgetting to torque.
Regardless unacceptable and super dangerous. Should document any damage to the shock and your truck. Have new shop recheck any bolt or nut they might have touched (sway bar linkage. KDSS valves etc…). And document and get appropriate compensation.

 

[HSTexan]

BTW, if anyone knows of a good suspension shop in Dallas that truly knows what they are doing, please pass along the info.

I'm curious who did the initial work since I'm in the area--if you feel comfortable I can send a PM instead.

I've always gone to Tandem Offroad, but they're over in Haltom City. Goode's Offroad is also highly recommended closer to Rowlett; Goode's has more of a Land Cruiser focus in his shop from what I've read, but he's also a former Toyota Master Tech. Tandem is more of an all encompassing Toyota shop, but the owner does have an HDJ81

 

[BIC JET]

I'm curious who did the initial work since I'm in the area--if you feel comfortable I can send a PM instead.

I've always gone to Tandem Offroad, but they're over in Haltom City. Goode's Offroad is also highly recommended closer to Rowlett; Goode's has more of a Land Cruiser focus in his shop from what I've read, but he's also a former Toyota Master Tech. Tandem is more of an all encompassing Toyota shop, but the owner does have an HDJ81

PM sent

 

[Nola622]

All the f'ing time on the squeak. Thanks for this.

So this photo shows how I ran the top shock mount washers - this will get rid of the squeak. Important parts are only 1 washer with a lip, and adding an extra washer at the top (other locations work for the extra washer as well). The gist of the extra washer is that you run out of threads and think you have the shaft tight enough but really you have just hit the end of the threaded section - an extra washer solves this.

 

[bloc]

So this photo shows how I ran the top shock mount washers - this will get rid of the squeak. Important parts are only 1 washer with a lip, and adding an extra washer at the top (other locations work for the extra washer as well). The gist of the extra washer is that you run out of threads and think you have the shaft tight enough but really you have just hit the end of the threaded section - an extra washer solves this.

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Good tech. One of the few gripes I have about my kings is that they don’t use this OE-developed method for isolating the upper mount, and can suffer bushing failure.

 

[Tex68w]

BTW, if anyone knows of a good suspension shop in Dallas that truly knows what they are doing, please pass along the info.

We kind of need to know who the offending shop is if this isn't their first mistake. My buddy up there uses Goode's and swears by them.

 

[isthatalexus]

Usually you are supposed to tighten and torque the bolts that have bushings once the truck is on the ground.
I wonder if that’s the mistake they made. Finger tightening the hardware and putting the truck down on a level surface. And forgetting to torque.
Regardless unacceptable and super dangerous. Should document any damage to the shock and your truck. Have new shop recheck any bolt or nut they might have touched (sway bar linkage. KDSS valves etc…). And document and get appropriate compensation.

Full echo on this. Hand tighten on rack. Torque on floor. Double check all of it. Ensure driver understands about a 500-mile shake-down re-tighten after installation. Takes time. Good, fast, cheap, pick two. That's the rule.

Pictures are from GX470 (sold) and this was my very first venture off-road...family on board (infant, no less). Passenger rear lower shock mount bolt self-dismissed; shock ground into inside of rim; to my novice ear it sounded very much like tire self-clearancing on wheel well bits; by the time I got the hint, the pretty new TRD rim was permanently promoted to spare. Sub-optimal all around. The hand-torque-check-shake procedure should be gospel.

A scholar and gentleman in a side-by-side helped me remove the top shock mount, and provided the needed encouragement to drive the thing home in the man-down configuration. Off-road people are good people.

 

[BIC JET]

Full echo on this. Hand tighten on rack. Torque on floor. Double check all of it. Ensure driver understands about a 500-mile shake-down re-tighten after installation. Takes time. Good, fast, cheap, pick two. That's the rule.

Pictures are from GX470 (sold) and this was my very first venture off-road...family on board (infant, no less). Passenger rear lower shock mount bolt self-dismissed; shock ground into inside of rim; to my novice ear it sounded very much like tire self-clearancing on wheel well bits; by the time I got the hint, the pretty new TRD rim was permanently promoted to spare. Sub-optimal all around. The hand-torque-check-shake procedure should be gospel.

A scholar and gentleman in a side-by-side helped me remove the top shock mount, and provided the needed encouragement to drive the thing home in the man-down configuration. Off-road people are good people.

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Very good, if not excellent information. Like you I was on the highway, and from the looks of it, it didn’t actually drop off until I left the nicely paved state highway. Once on the bumpy county road I travelled about three mikes to my destination at which my internal lightbulb came on and I realized a new sound.

 

[WCDAVE]

Common issue it seems. Passenger rear on first off road trip w/ new shocks:

Was not fortunate enough to find a fellow traveler with a wrench that could reach the upper bolt so went with this (shaft was bent so compressing was not an option):

Good times. Special thanks to Sonny and Evan at Pro Auto Care in Washington, UT for getting us back on the trail.

 

[BIC JET]

Something like this could help you get to the dealer without damaging things further.

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Edit: one last thought. If you do this don’t tighten them up a whole lot. Want to give room for the end to flex around some but not snap the zip ties.

Bloc I really appreciate all the help!

 

[bloc]

Bloc I really appreciate all the help!

Any time, sorry it happened. And through this I learned BPs are coming with special hardware now. Good info.

 

[BIC JET]

Any time, sorry it happened. And through this I learned BPs are coming with special hardware now. Good info.

Nice, I will see if I can get them to send me the hardware.