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Originally Posted by vstech
I have removed hundreds of trailing arms... I do not think the shock needs to be removed to get them out...
I swapped one in an afternoon due to a wheel bearing noise... never touched the shock upper mount...
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ever since you said this i have been interested to see if i could do the same on my 123s. recently i was yet again doing rear shocks on the wifes car, and there is no way this is possible on either the wifes 85 wagon (standard shock conversion), or my 83 240. the base of the shock absolutely cannot pass through the control arm. certainly not while bolted up top.
this has me thinking that maybe there are different types of control arms for the 123, maybe one with a bigger hole?
chances are walgumuth has the same as i do, where to remove the control arm, you absolutely do have to un bolt the top of the shock, or remove it all together first.
what years did you do? im curious what other difference there might be