Constructive Criticism Welcome!

[SuperHeroHype]

Hey Everyone! I just finished putting on my Bilstein 5100 struts on along with new upper control arms from RC. Just wanted to see if anyone might see any issues with the way it turned out. Before and after pictures to follow. The only issues I ran into were the nut on top of strut being rusted so bad I rounded off the top trying to remove it. Basically forcing me to compress the spring so much in order to gain access to cut off the nut. Also, the torque settings I’ve seen for the sway bar have me confused. Some say 75 others say 30???. I think I have mine cranked too much. Any thoughts? For those curious I have the struts set at 2.1 as I want to keep a 1” rake in the back since I do carry loads. Thanks for any input!!

 

[Joshua Collins]

Sway bar bushing are way too compressed. Need to loosen the nut up.

 

[ram1500rsm]

I don't go by torque on those bushings, torque down the nut until the bushings starts to compress and call a day. On alignment day ask you aligment dude to set up your caster towards the 5* mark, zero out the camber, 0.1 total toe.

 

[SuperHeroHype]

Thought so! I definitely loosened them up as recommended. Finally finished.

 

[Oliver Closehauf]

And you should always tighten suspension components in the naturally sitting position.