Video Transcript for Taylor Made Marine Gas Strut for Boat Hatches: The Breakdown

Today, we're going to take a look at the Taylor Made 20 inch long stainless steel gas shock. Now, this gas shock is designed to replace one worn out or damaged shock that's on your boat hatch. This is a stainless steel construction, so it provides maximum corrosion resistance. It is perfect for high saltwater areas. This does install easily in minutes. There's no special tools required to install this.

When you do install this you always want to make sure this rod portion, the inner rod portion here, is facing down. It is always recommended to replace these gas shocks in pairs. Now, the connection type on this shock is a removable 10 millimeter ball socket.I'm going to zoom in here just to show you how you would install this without any tools. Show you some details. You can see there's the ball socket.

Basically, to install it all you do is pull up on this cap right on top of here. When you pull up on that far enough what'll happen is it'll release the pressure on those four tabs on the inside, and allow you to push that onto your ball socket. Once it's popped onto the ball socket push that cap back down, and that'll put tension on it to hold it into place. Pretty easy to install. Don't have to worry about using any type of tools to install it.

Length on this. The length is always measured from the center of this one to the center of this ball socket. If we take a tape measure, and we go center to center there's your 20 inch measurement for the length. The output force on this is 40 pounds. That should do it for the review on the Taylor Made 20 inch long stainless steel gas shock..