Video Transcript for Comprehensive Review: Taylor Made Marine Gas Strut for Boat Hatches-3691840

Today we're gonna take a look at the Taylor Made 20 inch long steel gas shock. Now this gas shock is designed to replace a worn out or damaged shock on your dock box or boat hatch.It's a coated annealed steel construction, provides corrosion resistance and it's perfect for high saltwater areas. It does easily install in minutes. There's no special tools required. And when you do install this, you do want to install with this rod portion right here facing down.And it is recommended to replace these gas shocks in pairs. The connection type on this as a removable 10 millimeter ball socket with the retaining clip.

And what I want to do is just zoom in to show you the details on how it connects. But if you look on each end, you'll see the socket that connects to your ball and then above it is this retaining clip.So what you'll do is take a flat tip screwdriver, push it in that slot, pry up on that retaining clip to release it, and then push that onto your 10 millimeter ball. Once it's on the ball, push that clip back down and it'll secure it in place. So it's pretty simple to do.Now the length on this, the length on the shock will always be measured from the center of this ball socket to the center of this one. Should we put a tape measure on it.

And there is your 20 inch length. And the output force on the shock is 90 pounds. But that should do it for the review on the Taylor Made 20 inch long steel gas shock.