Refilling oil filled telescopic shock absorbers. 

With that pleasant voice, you should be on a radio station, instead of repairing shock absorbers.

I did this when I was a kid of an old car we were not using anymore. I didn't remove the shocks from the car but just drilled and full them.

Voice "Sean Connery"..... thank you Sir 🙏

Old worn out gas shock absorbers don't necessarily bounce back up either so a bit difficult to identify 100%

Great tutorial! The oil drained seems to be in great condition though.. just for sharing, I have friends that welded a nut over the hole so he can put a screw over to cap it and to make the next oil change job easier. :)

You can put thicker oil in to make the shocks even harder. For race use.

Many shock absorbers are oil filled and then pressurized with nitrogen to keep the oil from aerating. Also, the best oil for a shock absorber is one that keeps viscosity in all temps. Otherwise you wind up with a shock that rides hard when it gets cold out.

u used to work in a breakers yard and a colleague cut through a shock absorber with a stihl saw and it literally exploded. i was told by the owner that on certain cars it can be extremely dangerous but i guess this is just the oil filled ones as there is no pressure. gas ones can be anywhere from 100-300psi which could easily blow your hand apart - make sure they are oil!!!

spared no expense the voice of Sean Connery

I did this some years ago but I drilled a 3/16 hole then just screwed a 10 short bolt in no problems with leaks u can probably still weld it or use a brake nipple for future refilling

You should do audiobooks

That is great what you demonstrated. But if you capture the welding part also, it would be a complete DIY procedure for any person working on shocks.

Halo Sir, nice video. I just bought oil filled shock make "Amada Extreme" , comfort type. I think it is too soft for me. I would like to change the oil. What viscosity should I buy? I love speeding

Thank you

Hi Hensen, I have new shocks that bounced about 4 times when stopping. do you think fitting a heavier weight oil would slow the bounce down ? thanks

Did this to a stock shock to an volvo 240. Went great! used 15/40 oil(alittle mix with 10/40 and liiittle old oil left in the shock). But, its rly "tardy" to pull out but when compressing it dosnt feel very stiff... Am gonna get another shockabsorber and compare, but it kinda feels "loose"... Anyhows, great vid! U should do more of these!

This is the voice of a man who enjoys a succulent Chinese meal.☺

I always grease up the end of my drill bit and have somebody hold my shopvac nozzle up to the drill hole to catch the swarf. I refill with ATF as it swells the seals and makes it last longer. The seals for the rod allow a thin film of oil to pump by and the shock will have less oil than new from the factory. I fill them up and remove the air and just top them off and never have a problem. I TIG weld a nut to the hole and use a screw with fiber washer to seal it for next time. I top mine off about once per year.

Thank you Mr. Bond.

I thought I was listening sean Connery the whole time LoL

Right, now have a good laugh at me, I drive a 3 wheeler, a Reliant Robin, not a Robin Reliant, or a Robin for short, been looking at how to do the above, me shocks are around 30yrs old, dont leek, just a bit old, they are oil and not gas, so many thanks, I was thinking of putting a screw in nipple in hole instead of welding it, you lean some think new every day, when some think is brock nows a day, in stead of try to fix it, they get a new one, costing £100 or more, this way, 2hrs, may be £10 for oil, ps, well 20/50 engine oil work, that wot I put in me engine :)

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Interesting video. I never heard of anyone doing that before. You a cool accent, kind of sound like Sean Connery.

i appreciate you've taken the effort but fuck me! did you have any forethought about making this video?

I do not know that I liked more of your video, if your clear explanation, or your impeccable English accent. Your voice really looks like Sean Connery's. Congratulations

@Hensen1954 Great video, thanks for sharing. If your ever interested I am sure you could easily do some voice over work, you sound remarkably like one of my favorite actors, Hugh Laurie. I am sure you've heard that before. By the way check out "The Night Manager" if you haven't already, great mini series.

You need someone holding ur camera lol

Ok people if you want know if its a gas shock ..wash it clean ..its written on it ....oil type arr not written ...if its a gas shock and the gas has escaped. It will feel just like the oil type when dead ...so wash it clean and search for the word GAS

Thank you for the video.

Question sir which oil is better engine oil or transmission oil

Is this Sean Connery talking?

Great voice

Your voice sound like Dirt Rally 2 navigator.

Can I convert the gas shock to oil is there any tutorial video

PERFECT DIY VIDEO !!!

Hi Hensen :-) i like your voice and the kind like you teach us :-D Hensen...i hope you can help me.. I have a set of gas filled monotube "track" coilovers. On the i-net i cant find the infos i need to rebuild them...thats why ì ask you. They are disassambled...now i need to replace the O-rings and oil but i dont know how much and which oil because they were nearly empty when i opend it and i dont know how much pressure (nitrogen?)i should give them. Please help :-( kind regards Dave :-D

Thanks a lot for the video but the question is… how to close the hole safe

Wow .. what a brilliant hack. What kind oil used for commercial ... semi trucks shocks... ❤

MY SHOCK COMPRESSES VERY EASILY AND REBOUNDS MORE SLOWLY DOES THIS MEAN ITS BAD??

are you James? James bond Sean Connery?

So, there is also some air inside or can you fill it to the brim with oil? Do you have to buy shock oil or can you use a certain grade engine oil? So any 30 grade? 5/30 10/30,, 0/30 any engine oil, etc?

Damm,guy,(and galls,can't forget them!):here what you DO!!!!!! you braze a M8 nut over the hole,cut a M8 bolt short,and tighten it in there, WITH a COPPER washer; you DON'T weld up ,on that shtt ,after it's full of oil!!! (you could ,but you shd stand 30 ft away,lol).

Amazing 👍🏻

You should making money with your voice... Great job, thanks

Lol

Okay, I will try this. I was wondering, if 30w motor oil is good for slalom races ? Nice vid btw

James Bondish

Good day someone can give me some tips? How do I know the amount of oil that I will put on the bumper if it's frill? I have 4 bumpers to carry and ruffles someone can tell me if there are valves for the same?

Very informative but I have a problem that you havnt covered . My car is a Humber supersnipe and shock absorbers are not available but all the oil has leaked out of both of them , so how much oil should I use ? can I over fill the things ?

get a tripod please

Keep on pumping it until all the oil comes out there we go lol

Amazing job. One question: When you put new oil, how do you remove the air bubbles? Thanks

Theres always a bur when drilling what about the risk of swarf getting in the valves? Shox don't affect body roll in corners, they will affect the momentary roll when the car attempts to move but will allow full body roll as the shock is weighted, there is no spring to support weight shift just a reduction in the speed of the roll. Shox are to dampen the resonance of the springs not hold a car up.

You can use just any engine oil? Also I have an oil shock and I can push it down with one finger and it wont come back up unless i pull it back up and it is hard to do. IS this shock no more good?

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Hi Hensen, Interesting video. I have some shocks on an old 2CV (I think they are just oil shocks) I will drain them and measure the oil that comes out but wondered roughly how much there should be in a shock so that when I drain them and see how much oil there is currently it might give me an idea as to whether they have leaked in the past and the seals are shot - so probably not worth refilling. Useful video, thank you. Chris

Henson, if you're still around, I have 1960's Honda M.C. shocks that I think the oil has gelled rather than thinned, I don't know that for a fact but I suspect that. I wonder if you have ever cleaned a non-rebuildable shock and gotten the old crud out and replaced the oil afterwards, and if so is there a way to determine how much oil to replace it with. Thanks for the video, I always wondered if there was a way to replace oil in shocks that don't leak.

Thanks for your generous idea 👍

New KYB shocks go back to extend position by themself, but they still have oil in them.

Excellent technology

that's what your wife said.

He should narrate books

How to fill the hole?

I wanted to know if you get the oil hot in that shot will it blow up? I am trying to figure out should I use a TIG Mig?

Hi Sir! I just wanna ask if this method can help wornout shock absorber back to its original pressure, as good as new one?

James Bond doing DIY.

Sorry, I have never repaired gas filled. I just buy new ones. Surely, they are not expensive on e bay ??

Nice!

thanks and you have a great voice

a few questions, does the hole have to be at the bottom ? since i will try this on an old shock absorber with a slight leak is it safe to add oil till half of the reserve tube assuming the pressure tube is fully filled ? if so, i plan to drill in the middle so if oil overflows then the reserve is half filled. how much pressure is there in the reserve cavity during operation, reason i ask is how i will seal the hole if i have no welding equipment. thanks!

hey 007..i think they all bounce back regardless of being gas charged or not.

I took my car (Dodge Neon 05) to a car repair shop to check the shock absorbers, and they offered me to repair them, because they were apparently locked. The struts with the shocks were dismantled, and the manager told me that he repaired them, changing the oil. He showed me that now they could be pressed down with a hand, and this didn't seem to me to be right. They installed and I left the place. The result is that now the car is bouncing on the springs of the struts, they have no damping. Also I notice that the suspension is lower behind than it was before. The driving is unbearable, the car bounces on the springs with the minimum road bump. When I asked the person in charge of repairing the shock absorbers if he had assembled them with a lot of pressure, he replied to me: "Since it's a small car I did not put too much pressure in the shock absorvers." How is this possible? How can you regulate the shock absorber with much or little pressure? Pouring less oil? He offered to increase the pressure on the shock absorbers again. What should they do? Increase the amount of oil? According to what I understood in your video, you have to pour the same amount of oil that comes out, no less, no more. Is that right? I have to go back there next wednesday, I would really appreciate your advice.

what about quick fitting for adding air pressure or nitrogen

Hi there, i watched this video and tried to do this on a steering shock absorber. The shock seemed to be a oil filled and not gas filled. When i drilled the hole the oil sprayed a bit as i were drilling but nothing dramatic, so im pretty sure its a oil filled as if were a gas it should be a lot worse. So, i then get a 30w oil and sent the shock so a guy could weld a nut over the hole so i can close it with a bolt, and when i want to refill again i just open it and close it again. Well this guy opened the hole a little more and there was a little rubber on the inside and when he was opening a bigger hole he also drilled that rubber, and i dont know if this is bad or not?? Why? When i get back with the shock i refilled it with the new oil, but i got a leak trough the weld beads. I then filled the weld with epoxy jb weld. The problem is i kept getting air inside the shock when closed. I fill with oil and the shock makes a good motion(stiff) trough the travel, but when i close it and pump it it starts to make movement stop as air i sttopping the shock travel and getting soft...Do you have any ideas to fix this? Thanks.

hey bro! nice video but i have a question! you ever tested repaired shocks on your car before? & in some other videos i saw other guys adding air to the shock after filling up with oil is that necessary ?

I am trying this job foreign country

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oil hydraulic? or 10w40 oil engine?

Is this a twin tube shock? Did you drill just through the outer tube or through both of them?

can you screw in a nipple instead of welding ?

Motor oil will suffice to refill the shock? 20w mono grade motor oil? or am looking for a specific type of oil? 20w50 multi grade? or something else? Thanks.

Is this the same for Nivomats?

refilled but 10 or 15 hydraulic oil

great video thanks

Ga ngerti mas

how much pressure gas need in this?

great video i had a thought though. could you tap in a thread and install a bleed nipple so if you wanted to tow a trailer you could add a bit of extra oil and then when finished bleed some oil back out ? would adding a bit more oil solid up the shock or do you need a thicker grade?

nice one

the new oil you put in and all the hassle, a new shock absorber cost less lol

Read below. Many ways, but I weld it closed. You can use a plug or bung, up to you. But, I always use a blob of weld.

if trying this see first comment, weld nut over hole and cap with a bolt while no oil is in the shock. if you have a sealed steel pipe, fill it with oil and simultaneously seal it while heating it to several thousand degrees, what you are likely building is a pipe bomb....................

cab I weld it with arc welding and what type of oil

can engine oil be used or is it some other kind of oil

so first i have to buy a welder !!!

007

what about for 10w40 oil? and does it has to be new oil or ot can be used one from motor changed before interval