sure thing, give me till tomorrow and i will take my wheel off also and take some pics so I can label the things that need to come apart.

 

Hey, thanks for giving it a shot. I don't know what the requirements are, but maybe you might even be able to have it put into the Tech articles of this site.

 

Ok I will write down a quick break down and tomorrow I will add pictures. Now there might be a better way to do this, I am not a professional, but it worked for me.

1. Jack one side of the truck and place and support it with a jack stand.
a. Remove tire.

2. Now the first thing I did was lossen the bottom bolt for the strut assembly. This is the hardest part it is very tight. (this is a 30mm deep well for the nut and a 1 1/8th wrench for the bolt)

3. Next you will remove 3 nuts.
a. Remove the nut from the sway bar were it attches to the lower A-arm (this is on the under side of the A-arm and is an 18mm)
b. The second nut you will remove is from the ball joint were it attaches to the lower A-arm and brake rotor attach point. (this is 21mm)
c. The third nut that will be removed is from the steering arm (sorry dont know the correct name)...( also a 21mm)
d. Now after you remove nuts 2 and 3 give the bolts a little love with a hammer (perferably a sledge) and they will loosen enough to disengage them.

4. Now with all 3 nuts taken off and bolts pushed out you can take off the top 3 nuts on the strut assembly.

5. Remove the bottom bolt from the strut assembly now.

6. Remove strut assembly from truck

7. The autospring kit will only go on one way so it is not possiable to mess this up.
a. attach the autospring assembly to the top of the strut using the origanal nuts from the truck.

8. Put strut assembly back into truck (once again it will only fit one way)

9. Start the front 2 nuts on top of the strut assembly to hold it in place.

10. At this time you will replace the bottom bolt for the strut assembly also, and start the nut.

11. Now place your jack under the lower A-arm and slowly jack it up (remember you just added 2" to 2.5")
a. Now when you get it moved far enough up you will be able to replace the steering linkage, sway bar and and upper ball joint.

12. Tighten these 3 nuts
a. tighten the lower strut assyembaly nut.
b. Put the third nut on the top of the strut assembly and tighten all three.

13 Remove jack from under lower A-arm.

14. Install Wheel.

15. All that is left now is to take it to the auto shop and get an allignment. This should not throw the allignment off to bad (just the toe in)

GOOD LUCK just remember the first side you do will take you the longest, its a learning process.

 

You should also torque the bolts as per the directions. If you don't have a torque wrench, borrow or rent one.

 

Yes true I didnt put in the tourqe specs due to them being in the directions that come with the autospring kit.

 

Shoot me an email and I will send you some instructions with pics. I'm pretty good with tools but all of the names for items doesn't help me. I needed to see pics of the sway bar, torsion shlt or whatever. Anyway, with pics, anybody can do it!

P.S. I did waste about 45 min with the jack! My advice is to make sure you start off with a good jack and jack stands! Luckily my neighbor came home and let me borrow his floor jack. Smooth sailing from then on, took me about 1hour and some change on one side and then 45min on the other. Then I put my new tires and wheels on also.

my email addy is nathaniel.durantiii@us.army.mil

 

Abaddon... I knew a band from Albuquerque named Abaddon...Any relation?

 

No actually its after an Irish band that I used to listen to alot kinda like Morbid Angel and such it was called Abaddon Incarnate