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    Default Rear shock top bolt.

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    you know the holes that you need to pass the socket through to get to the top bolt on the rear shocks. Well is the area between them totally enclosed? I've only gone and dropped my 17mm socket in there.
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    Apparently there is an access hole under the rear seats

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    Cheers, thats saved me a couple of hours with a magnet on a piece of string.

    Just got to hope there aren't any more dead mice under the rear seat.
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    Top bolt on the rear shocks is accessible from underneath, not the inner wings.

    If I've understood you correctly...

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    Quote Originally Posted by wrinx View Post
    Top bolt on the rear shocks is accessible from underneath, not the inner wings.

    If I've understood you correctly...

    wrinx
    Nope, I've been trying to shift the rusted up bolt from underneath, but in the process have dropped the 17mm socket off the end of the extension bar as I was pulling it out.

    Just needed to know if the place I dropped it into is accessible in any way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Webb View Post
    Just needed to know if the place I dropped it into is accessible in any way.
    If you know if this worked let us know
    I also dropped something there

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    Thinking about it, when I did my rear shocks the 17mm was undone from right under the car, not the outer like when I changed them on Neil's twinspark..Q4 must be different..

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    If you've dropped a socket in the abyss then you're attacking the wrong one. The nut in the wheel arch (behind a rubber grommet) is welded to the bodywork or captive in some other way.

    The shock bolt is removed from underneath

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    Quote Originally Posted by wrinx View Post
    If you've dropped a socket in the abyss then you're attacking the wrong one. The nut in the wheel arch (behind a rubber grommet) is welded to the bodywork or captive in some other way.

    The shock bolt is removed from underneath

    wrinx
    Yup that is how I did mine and is different to the twinny...

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    Arse. thought it was being stubbon!

    What Grommet?
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    There's usually a c.40mm rubber grommet covering the hole, to stop water ingress.

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    I think there's a mix up here. You have to loosen the bolt from underneath. But if you drop your socket in the rear beam while doing this, it ends up somewhere inside the beam. To get that socket out (not the bolt) you need to get under the seat.

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