Originally Posted by
VenturaDC
After using a metal washer and metal nut my shocks maybe have 1-2mm of play to slide front to rear, anything less then that I could see causing some slight binding, if its just a little bit of movement and the shocks still rotate around the ball then you'll be fine. Taking out all the play will give you issues.
To each their own but I only use metal ball at the bottom of the front shock only, where it goes through the a-arm. To minimize wear and tear.
I prefer to use plastic nut at the end of the top tower screw, so when I crash I'll rather the nut give way than broken shock top (happened before). I wouldn't recommend nylocks at all. JC makes a tree of 3mm plastic lock nuts. Cheers,