no.. malware is def not it.. problem is we use IE8.. :Puke:

 

I was using IE 10 but had to switch to Chrome to use this forum well. Chrome doesn't let me use my laser printer to make labels for shipping with UPS though. I wish they just had one instead of trying to confuse everything............just kidding about the viruses.

 

chrome is all I use at home but can't do it at work. sux

 

Hey guys.
Finally got started on this project but I'm at that point of no return, yet can't continue.

The instructions i found here said to remove the rear spring to shackle bolt (rear springs) but that bolt will not budge. Tried PB blaster, tried a lot of heat, lots of muscle and I can only hear it laughing at me.

So I started doing the shackle to frame and I was able to remove the nut but halfway through, the bolt won't go in or out.

Ideas?

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You have too much pressure on the bolt.

How do you have the truck jacked up? Where are the jack stands? At what point is the suspension, compressed or expanded?

Stewart

 

This is what I did.
Jacked truck up by axle and removed wheels.
Set stands on frame.
Lowered the axle till suspension hanging by springs and then a got it a bit up to set jack stands under axle.
Removed fwd spring to frame nuts. Those were easy.
Passenger side got the spring to shackle nut but driver I had to do shackle to frame.
Got the ubolt nuts all loosened up and almost all out
Figured I was good so went to next step.
Dropped axle and springs are now off everything except front and rear mounts.
Removed front spring to frame bolt and got stuck on the rear..
It just turns and goes nowhere.
At this point I put the fwd spring to frame bolt back on to help with leverage. The spring moves forward while turning the bolt so I put a jack stand underneath the spring to reduce the travel and there is barely any but still didn't get it all out.
I now have a jack under the spring pushing it as far up as the jack will go and this didn't seem to help eihter...

One "small" detail.. at one point I figured it would be a good idea to just cut the rear shackle to frame and started grinding it out which I then realized it wasn't that great of an idea cuz I don't see how I would push the rest of the bolt out after cutting the head so now I have to remove it even if I did get the spring to shackle loose.. ugh!!!

This whole project has been a chaos since I decided to do it..

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I have read your last post like three times. I am currently doing an X/B swap on an 02 Excursion. I removed the shackle to frame bolt, and my replacement springs had the shackles still on them. Sounds like you cut the bolt I removed. You have to keep the front bolts in until the back ones are broken loose. The only thing i can think of, if I have read your last post correctly, is that you may could use a 3/4 breaker bar with a cheater and a jack to break the shackle to spring bolt loose. You may also try heating the bolt, only if there is no chemical present.

 

I'm going to try the top (spring to shackle) bolt again tomorrow but I still need to get the bottom one (shackle to frame) out since I started grinding it...
Any tips to remove that one? It just spins and hoes nowhere.

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Springs are off but the shackles are still stuck on the truck. This sux

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