I really don't think its a hard job at all. I've done lots of spring work on vehicles in the driveway, or a shop without a hoist. But I guess it's all in how you look at things. I've done pritty much everything you can think of in the driveway without any help. It's all in the tools you use. I have some big jackstands, a floor Jack, and a cherry picker. All of it gets used a lot of times. The cherry picker is nice to raise the whole end of a vehicle when making spring swaps. The axle can stay on the jackstands, and you lift the vehicle up off the axle after its all unbolted, and pop the old springs out and the new ones in quick and let it all back down.

How the pucker gets used a lot.

 

It's not that bad if you prep the hardware in advance with some penetrating oil. PB Blaster for a few overnight soakings and Liquid Wrench on anything that's still stubborn during the swap itself. I feel bad that my rig went down for the bad fuel, I was about to order my new springs and leave the old ones in yours as a surprise. Money had to go elsewhere

As pointed out hand tools are completely useable but set aside an entire day. My friend and I did mine in about 8 hours, but that includes shocks and the Icon 2" full hangar kit on the front. The shackle on the passenger side was a royal bitch due to the heat shield. Unless anyone is swapping the hangars out, that part y'all need'nt worry about.

B-mod was easy enough, definitely use two C-clamps to hold the pack together when installing the new through-bolt, I tried to shortcut and ended up stripping the nut out on one of them.

After liberal soakings with PB-B daily for a week the only bolt that gave me a hard time was the driver rear, rearmost bolt through the spring. That ******* had us swapping out every 10 minutes of yanking and cranking on the ratchet and seriously left me considering breaking into Sears for an air compressor and tools.

To me, major modifications are so much more rewarding if you do them yourself. Being able to step back and squint in the 1AM morning light at the finished product is quite satisfying. Right up until you look at the tools everywhere that still need picking up.

Having said all that, I would do a spring swap again in a heartbeat over some other wrenching I've had to do. Changing a driveshaft u-joint in the middle of a stream because you were a jackass and went wheeling by yourself and can't get out in 2wd due to a grenaded driveline absolutely sucks.

 

HaHa, my UPS driver that delivered my C codes said that if these were on his truck everyday he'd quit.

 

This is by far the worst part!

 

I got the new springs, bolts and u-bolts from Autonation delivered to the shop directly. Had the mechanic order the correct length u-bolts for the one axle. They cut off all the old bolts and installed all the new parts for 300 bucks. They said it was easy for them as long as they could cut the old stuff off saved a lot of time that way. They also modded the rear B codes like I had asked them too and added the third leaf from the old rear spring pack to the front to bring it up a little more.

 

I paid $200 for labor also but I helped. A lot of techs here at work do side jobs so that's how we did it. Took about 4 hours to swap front and rear springs.

 

My labor cost was about $500. The new springs and all hardware was around $900. $2200 is too high. The job was a bit of a b*tch for them though. In the construction business you give an overly high quote because you don't really want to do the job but don't want to tell the customer no.

 

had my springs done and it cost me $2200.00 it was at superior spring in canton Ohio.
They also added a leaf to all four spring's@

 

I did my front's in my garage in a evening, wasn't bad. the rears idk about they look like a little more work.

 

Nah, it's not that daunting. I did all 4 corners in my driveway with nothing but hand tools. I had help of course, and more than one floor jack, which was a HUGE asset to muscle the springs around.

Stewart

 

Oh so you do admit your not all stock Time to update your signature

 

they were excursion spring's just added a leaf.

 

If you live where they use salt the spring change is/can be a pain. We cut almost everything or torch was used heavily. I ordered all new bolts and shackles and brackets. That made life much easier because didn't have to worry about reusing anything. Also if you can do this job by yourself you are the MAN. Fought pretty good getting stuff lined up