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Nov 5, 2008 | 11:03 AM

#16

HKusp

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From: Hampton, Maryland.

Use the bottle jack at the end of the spring. Be careful. I used a porta power, that thing is worth it's weight in gold for something like this, but the bottle jack with some blocks of wood will do too.

The reason my bolts wouldn't fit was because they were machined with a shoulder built in right near the top of the head of the bolt. It was just a little too big to fit.

Nov 5, 2008 | 01:00 PM

#17

big poppa

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From: Lancaster, Pa.

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Originally Posted by Flying Finn

Thanks guys, little more:

Do you jack the springs (with the bottle jack) from underneath the axle (so in the middle of the springs) or at the end of the spring where you're trying to persuade it into the shackle.

Did anyone else beside Jason need to enlarge the holes?

I put the bottle jack between the leaf and cranked it up to the frame above until the leaf lined up with the holes in the shackle. Hook up the shackle at the top first then to the leaf. Also remember the long part of the shackle goes up at the top of the frame, short part down to the leaf. No enlargement of the holes here, the bolts slid right in, good luck.