I recently bought another FC and it has these tokico shocks on it. but they are banging around like they werent tightened. so i pull them off and find the mounting bracket is flapping in the breeze, and the top nut isnt tightened down all the way. I try to tighten, and it just spins with the shaft.. all the brackets and bushings spin freely against the shaft also. so there is nothing to brace against to tighten the nut. wtf?? any help?



I can see scrapes on the upper part of the shaft were it looks like someone took vise grips to it

 

On a FD Tockico Illumina shock, there is a spacer provided that mounts underneath the nut that screws onto the top of the shaft. The spacer is compressed by the nut and bracket. There is also two flat sides on top of the shaft to mount a wrench on to hold the shaft in place while you loosen or tighten the nut. If your bracket spins freely, most likely, your shaft nut needs to be tighten more.

Hope this helps.

 

use an impact gun and impact that nut in. had the same problem with my previous agx's. couldn't tighten it by hand, so used an impact, and it was fast enough to keep the shaft from spinning along with it.

 

You're suppose to use an alan (sp?) wrench and a wrench. That should get it all the way down. If not, then just use an impact and fire away.

 

I had the same problem on my FD tockicos... there should be a flat portion at the top of the threading where the nut is screwed on jus use a hand clamp and hold onto it while u loosen the nut with a wrench. worked for me and it didn't damage the thread.

 

I took it over ot a friends house who had an impact gun. he took it off, but the threads were all stripped to hell

 

Is unsafe to drive with a loose nut on top of the shox but you can prob reinstall the shox and drive slowly to place where you can get acces to a impact gun. You can also try tightening the nut with the shock install to see if the friction would keep the shaft from spinning.