Assess Problem and Gather New Parts

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