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Reply #25 –
On my coach I replaced the shocks and air bags. What I remember being the hardest part of the job was getting to the nut on the front of the passenger side front air bag and the air line fitting. I wound up cutting the rubber off the air bag. The other thing I remember is the nuts and bolts on the shocks had metal self locking nuts and some very powerful locktite. They were extremely hard to get off with the tools I had. From memory I think I didn't have room to get a big impact on some of them. I did eventually get it done. But I'm very stubborn.
Tom
Tom and Michelle 2004 U270 36WTFS

Re: Air bag tools by DSD

Reply #26 –
Quote from: red tractor –
That was done to protect the air line from damage from something thrown up by the tires.
Protecting the air lines makes sense to me. If you have a blow out separating the air lines from a slinging tire carcass just makes sense. Also mentioned earlier was to remove the nylock. They were friction lock nuts and that is why I used a tap to remove the locking device. I also used a corrosion preventive material on the  threads.

Re: Air bag tools by DSD

Reply #27 –
Still working on this project, as have several things going on. But completed the entire rear of the coach in 2 days time. Removed the fender skirts, which was not that hard, BUT the outside trim strip was glued near the entire length which complicated/slowed the removal. Also the top of each skirt also had about 6-8 screws across the top of it, behind the Trim strip and in addition to the screws in the trim strip. While I had the skirts off and easier to get to, they went on body panel stands and got buffed out to a nice shine and fresh coat of marine wax before I reinstalled.

No big issue getting any of the bag bolts out. ONLY the 3/4 air nipple stud on mine were using the locknut, the rest were using standard nuts with lock washers. Like DSD, I used a 3/4-16 tap to cut the thread locks out of the lock nuts and went back with lock washers. The large 3/4" bolts on the shocks were the only thing where I had to dig out my large Earthquake impact gun to remove. They had and went back with lock nuts.

Back at it later today with the front. Skirts and tires will be coming off. Tires coming off as I have, and want to add the helper springs to the calipers.
Mike in AL
2001 U295
8.3 ISC 350
Build 5918