Fixing a sagging tailgate!

hey there folks this is Josh Tony rich farmer welcome back to the farm today is another quick tips video from Stoney Ridge farmer do you guys have a similar situation to this propped up the hatch on the back of your vehicle with a stick so dad came over with his Honda Element and his shocks on the back of here are wearing thin in other words they won't lift the gate all the way up like they should now I know a lot of you guys probably have hatchbacks or have cars with the same problem and you take it to the dealer and they're gonna charge it like 250 300 bucks how much was it they said that would charge two hundred and seventy three bucks to do this we're going to post a link down the video description we've got some new shocks we're gonna show you how to install those on today's quick tips on the Stoney Ridge farm all right [Music] so in case you guys don't know this is a tobacco stick so this is probably 60 years old been used in a tobacco barn to hang tobacco we're here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina kind of cool we're using this to prop up while we do our work here and we'll also use dad a little bit too so here's the old shock and it's very very simple to do this we ordered some new shocks off of Amazon we'll post a link down there they are from where are they from lyft supports depot.com they don't pay me to tell you that but these were the least expensive ones that work for this vehicle they're about 30 bucks and basically there's just a little tab here and a little tab here now you want to only do one of these at a time so you can make sure or take a picture of it first if you just have one to make sure that you put it back in exactly right so if you're nervous about that snap a picture of what you're doing real quick we're going to show you very very simple all you need is a flat tip screwdriver and a buddy to help or a stick to help so this is the lower stanchion on this shock and basically all we're going to do is take our flat tip screwdriver we're going to put it right in here and there's a little clip that little clip you see it popping free keep your hand right here because it's going to pop loose and go flying somewhere if you don't watch out now that clip is free right there we're going to go up to the top side and do the same thing so the top side here is just a little more user-friendly we could get it from this direction from the top or we could get it from the bottom we're just going to reach right up underneath here with a flat tip screwdriver and pry that guy out too this one will kind of stay in place now the next step we're going to do is we're actually going to release that same pin on our new one you just basically just pry that up have it ready to rock and roll pry that one up and then pry it up on this end very simple the new ones a little bit more user-friendly than the original Honda equipment here's where your helper or your dad or your own arms come into place so you want to lift up a little bit on the hatch that you have and your old shock should pop right off so it just came right off and underneath here are little like balls that this thing rides on so we're gonna wipe those clean and we're gonna reinstall our new ones after you put a little drop of grease on them so we're gonna use is PB Blaster penetrating lithium grease on this it's a little bit thicker and it won't attract dust quite as much as other greases or like wd-40 or something like that so what we're gonna do just wipe off those little stanchions there's a little knobs but this was on and then we'll just take a little dab of grease shake this up real good and put it on there I'll show you there we go like so and we'll do that same thing with the bottom we'll take our new shot just like we did our old shock and we'll reinstall it the exact same way the exact same position so all you got to do slide it on there pop that little pin into place and then go down here to the lower one and do the exact same thing with the lower one rock-and-roll good to go now we'll give you a little more detail on the other one and actually I just found out you don't have to loosen these before you install them so all you got to do is put it right on there and go boom and it pops right on let's go to the next one once again this is the other side we're just gonna pop this off slide it out boom good to go take our rag spray a little Lube on there wipe it clean just like so trying to be careful not to get oil all over dad's car I don't think dad really cares as you can tell there's some chain saws on the back of there this Honda Element has been an awesome vehicle for my dad he's really loved it had it for about ten years only got about 120,000 miles on it uses it as a pickup truck most of the time so here's our new shock and once again we're just gonna mount it just like it was before we'll do the lower one first so we've got a little extra grease on there and all you got to do is just push it on boom in place so the upper one is in position right here all we're going to do is pull down on the shock a little bit and pop it right into place and then we're good to go so the last thing you might want to consider is lubricating your hinges a little bit too so we're going to go ahead and lube up the hinges on this so it doesn't go uh-huh and then we'll check it out make sure it works right get a little Lube in here just take our little towel just like that we use a lot of PB products here on the farm they are a friend of our YouTube channel pretty awesome we'll move it up and down a little bit here make sure you get that penetrating Lube in there and then we'll wipe off any excess Lube that we do have so we're not attracting dirt and dust and stuff like that open boom that's what you want guys good stuff guys thanks a lot for coming to join me here on the Stoney Ridge farm I hope you enjoyed this little quick tip how to replace the shocks on the back of your hatchback or your hood or whatever part of a vehicle you might need toolboxes all that stuff it's really simple it doesn't take much time you don't have to take it to the dealer and if you got a buddy to help you it really makes a difference thanks a lot please found that like button subscribe to the Stoney Ridge farm channel and we'll see you next time alright [Music] here in sweet and some ways those Denise Tony Reed Oh