RE: 5000 Shock Socket

[Peter Tracy <pgt@novelmail.keps.com>]

I just changed the shocks in my '90 200 the other night after work. You   
can get that top socked off with a 22 mm offset box wrench for the bolt   
and a hex socket. It is really easy. However, the cap holding the shock   
in the strut is another matter without the special tool! I got one off   
with a large pipe wrench and the other with an air chisel.

Peter


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From:  quattro-owner
Sent:  Sunday, April 06, 1919 6:25PM
To:  Michael Spiers
Cc:  quattro
Subject:  Re: 5000 Shock Socket


 > I asked him about the special socket (the one with a
 > missing sidewall) and he said he'd never even SEEN the thing,
 > meaning no-one in the whole service area had ever had one.

I'm repeating here, but:

That's a 7/8" oxygen sensor socket. The socket has a slit because the
wires on the sensor has to "pass thru" the socket. Fairly common.

If you can find a 22mm or a 7/8" socket that has outside-surfaced hex
facets, you could use a normal box wrench on that- then slip the allen
key thru the square hole of the socket.