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What are you guys doing to assemble the shock caps to the body with the O-rings. The ones that I have seem to be a little large and are just spit out of the side when twisting the cap down. I have seen shocks in the past that instead have Teflon tape to get them to seal so apparently this o-ring deal hasn't been happiness for everyone?

The recent classic kit would do the same but a little oil on the o-ring kept the friction down on the cap and kept it in place.

the o-ring should be a snug fit around the threads on the body. then yes, some oil applied should provide enough slip that you can tighten without the o-ring being ejected. it's definitely not a simple task.

A dab of oil helps a bunch to keep the cap from grabbing it and twisting it out or damaging it. This is very similar to putting a little bit of oil on a new oil filter for a car.

Additionally, not have the bleeder screw on will typically help as well.

First make sure your not using the slightly larger adjusting collar o-rings, they are a bit bigger, I caught myself the first time doing just that.
My O-rings for the shock tops seem too tight and were a pain to put on when my hands had oil all over them, they did seal fine how ever.
Lynn

Hi - Are you saying that the larger of the two orings goes in the adjusting collar and the smaller goes up top with the Cap? If so.. are you sure? Thanks

100% sure!

Okey Dokey.. I will get with the program then and make this work.. Thanks Guys!

Guys - Thanks for the help.

We were down in Hallett Oklahoma running the Porsche so I was working on these in the motel room and had left the instruction manual at home.
I bought new O-rings in case I nicked the one trying to install them in the wrong places. The shocks are now together correctly.