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Old Mar 30, 2013 | 09:21 PM
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What a p.i.t.a that was!!! Fronts ok but the rear...wow
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Old Mar 30, 2013 | 09:34 PM
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Did you cut the plastic thing before you tried to put the rear ones? I made that mistake once too and it made it unbelievable harder
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Old Mar 30, 2013 | 09:39 PM
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Yeah it really is a pain, they should have made it easier to get to.
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Old Mar 30, 2013 | 09:40 PM
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Yep. That's the way my buddy wanted to do it. It wasn't putting them on it was taking the old ones off...original with 180,000 on em. Beer time now buddy
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Old Mar 30, 2013 | 09:41 PM
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bought 4, did the fronts, found out they were not that bad, i left the rears alone, youtube showed me how hard it was... still good for a few years...
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Old Mar 30, 2013 | 09:43 PM
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I put on kayaba monomax shocks..really happy with them so far
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Old Mar 30, 2013 | 10:07 PM
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Took for a test drive on a dirt road....started raining and had some fun....kayaba shocks work great!!!

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