one, two, three, four! Rev up your engines! It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel if your car's making a lot of clunking noises as you're going
down the road, you might need new strut mounts, so today I'm going to show you how
to check out and replace broken strut mounts, now the strut mounts are on top
of the struts, right here, and as you can see when I push the car up and down, you
can see the metal inside is broken from the rubber, as you can see on this new
mount, the rubber is all solid inside, when they get old the rubber cracks, then
the metal just moves up and down and you got to replace it, now you have to remove
the whole strut to change the top, so we'll Jack it up, take off the tire, and since this strut mount is on top of the strut, we got to take the whole strut assembly off, so
we'll loosen the bolt on the tie rod and then hit with a hammer to get the tie
rod off, and then off it comes, then we unbolt all the other parts that
hold the strut onto the knuckle, then we'll wiggle it out of the way,
then we on both the three bolts on the top, and the strut falls down, put one
hand under it and you can slide it out, and here's the entire strut, the mount is
inside here, so we have to take the spring off in order to replace it, and
since this Honda has one hundred and sixty eight thousand miles on it and
those are the original struts, I'm going to replace the whole strut with a new one,
now if your strut isn't worn-out and isn't that old, you could just replace
the strut mount, but I'm going to replace them both on this thing, and before you
take it apart, notice it says, R for right, and it points here towards the
front, so when you replace it, make sure your new one has a R line marked in
the same position, so it aligns right, then you get two spring compressors, and
tighten them up to make the spring compressed, then you can take it apart, then you
unbolt the last bolt that holds it together, and pull the top off, then you
get your new strut, and put the spring assembly back on top of it, then put the
little collar bearing on top, it comes with the kit, then get the new strut
mount, slide that on top, and bolt it back on, and of course
remember to put the R in the arrow pointed out in the same direction as the
other one was, and then unbolt the spring compressor and take that off, then you
get the assembly and slide back up into the holes, and then just loosely put the
nuts on to hold it in place while you put the rest of it back together, then
bolt it back on, put it on nice and tight, you don't want it coming off, and then
put the tie rod back on, and bolt that up nice and tight, and don't forget to put a
cotter pin back in to keep it from falling off, then put the tire back on,
and let down the car, then finish tightening the three bolts on the top, now when we push on it, doesn't move all over the place because it's not
broken, so the next time your strut mounts break, why not replace them
yourself, and remember if you've got any car
questions just visit the Scotty Kilmer channel.