Summary: and found two shaft collars that were about the height of the top nut and fit the strut piston shaft without any play but not too snuggly pic of nut with spacer Here is a pic of the torquing With the spacer in place the expensive Snap On wrench fits nicely Trivial note With the Snap On wrench turning the nut clockwise my torque wrench had to turn the shaft
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