It's not overly backbreaking to exchange the shocks on a Jeep Cherokee. Provided you own some tools in your garage and some practical savvy, you can save cash on labour charges and perform the gig yourself. But, the rear upper shock studs may justification a botheration. Sometimes they snap when the nuts are duration removed from them. Nevertheless, you can pound the broken stud into the frame and Viper a typical bolt washed-up the frame and into the gap, and there's margin to receive a hand wrench on the bolt mind when it comes lifetime to tighten it.
Instructions
1. Field the Jeep on a Apartment lodgings paved or concrete surface. Proceeds the hood bolt and unlocked the hood. Berth one circle chock in front of one front tire and field the other turn chock remain one rear tire.
2. Fix the front shock upper studs in the engine compartment and remove the nuts (using the ratchet, extent and a socket) from the shock studs on both the left and hold water front shocks. Place on safety glasses and alteration under one side of the vehicle (on a creeper provided you include one) and remove the lower mounting devotee on the shock absorber from the bracket on the axle. Cause a box edge wrench, or end the ratchet and socket whether there's Sufficiently time. Remove the shock absorber.
Remove the upper washer and upper shock bushing from Everyone shock stud.3. Up thrust and aid the front axle of the Jeep with the floor jack and both jack stands.4.
5. District the lower shock washer and lower shock bushing onto the dissimilar shock absorber and subsume the shock finished the shock gap Garret. Compress the shock and allow the lower shock studs to line up and sink into the holes on the axle bracket. Apply the nuts and tighten.
6. Repeat Steps 4 and 5 for the other front shock absorber.
7. Lower the Jeep to the ground and replace the upper shock bushings first, then the upper shock washers, then the upper shock nuts to the shock studs. Tighten, remove the tools and close the hood.
8. Raise and support the rear axle of the Jeep with the floor jack and jack stands.
9. Crawl under one side with the ratchet, extension, socket, hand wrench and new shock absorber. For the rear shocks, remove one and replace it at the same time and then move to the next one.
10. Spray the frame-mounted shock studs with a liberal amount of spray lubricant and allow it to soak in for a couple of minutes. Remove the upper nuts off the frame-mounted shock studs using the ratchet, extension and a socket.
11. Remove the lower bolt, nut and washer from the axle tube bracket, using the ratchet and a socket on one end and a hand wrench on the other.
12. Remove the shock absorber.
13. Install the new shock absorber by threading on the nuts to the upper studs first, then compress it to feed the bolt through the bottom bracket. Tighten both upper nuts and the lower shock bolt nut.
14. Repeat Steps 10-13 for the other side shock.
15. Lower the Jeep and remove the wheel chocks.
