Getting Excited!! Two more days and Bilsteins are here

[SMITHY]

Agreed $mithy.

My Bilsteins were delivered today. If I didn't have class until10pm I would be installing them tonight.

Yeah mine not here until tomorrow around 5pm. We are always UPS's last stop. Now I found out my wheels won't be in until Thursday the same time I am getting the kit installed. Then I have to try and get alignment, new tires mounted, kit installed all before I go back to Iowa this weekend. Busy times! You live closer to Cali than I do, I can't believe you got yours a day ahead of me...*****.....LOL......

 

[SMITHY]

my leveling kit has been sitting in my garage for over a week. I have yet to find time or somebody to help me install it

That is a bummer. I went to a local Meineke here and talked with them about the spacer kit, like you have or what HBS sells, and they told me $60.00 to install and then $69.00 for the alignment. Could not believe the alignment cost more than the install.

 

[durango4819]

That is a bummer. I went to a local Meineke here and talked with them about the spacer kit, like you have or what HBS sells, and they told me $60.00 to install and then $69.00 for the alignment. Could not believe the alignment cost more than the install.

thats a lot less then my spacer kit was when i had it installed, and cheaper then the alignment i had done at my local Meineke after Bilsteins lol

 

[SMITHY]

thats a lot less then my spacer kit was when i had it installed, and cheaper then the alignment i had done at my local Meineke after Bilsteins lol

I actually have a mechanic coming to my house for the Bilstein kit install, and he is charging me $75 to install the new Bilsteins in the front and then another $25 to install the rear spacer. Then I have to run somewhere for the alignment. Then go drop the real cash on the damned tires! I cannot believe how the price of tires has escalated.

 

[durango4819]

i was going to do the bilsteins myself but trying to get a bolt out of one of my a-arms broke my friends impact gun lol, what size tires did you go with?

 

[SMITHY]

i was going to do the bilsteins myself but trying to get a bolt out of one of my a-arms broke my friends impact gun lol, what size tires did you go with?

I am gonna go with 315/70/17 Falken Wildpeak At's. Hoping they fit. Got new MB wheels coming too, which are 17x8.5 with -6 offset. The wheels in my sig are factory offset and backspace and NTB scratched them while aligning it, so they are buying the new ones.

 

[quietpeen]

That is a bummer. I went to a local Meineke here and talked with them about the spacer kit, like you have or what HBS sells, and they told me $60.00 to install and then $69.00 for the alignment. Could not believe the alignment cost more than the install.

i'm trying to see if a guy i work with has any experience with ifs like my truck. That would save on install labor

 

[SMITHY]

i'm trying to see if a guy i work with has any experience with ifs like my truck. That would save on install labor

Yep you buy the beer!! LOL....I am not sure I could sit on the kit for a week and wait like you have. I would have to figure something out quick...LOL
But then again I am very impatient to get all this done. Then I can just drive and enjoy it. Gonna take a break after this. With what NTB has put me through it has been very stressful.

 

[discojables]

I'm planning on doing this install tonight. How long you think its going to take? I've helped install bilsteins on a mazda 6... I'm assuming this may be a little different though.

 

[SMITHY]

I'm planning on doing this install tonight. How long you think its going to take? I've helped install bilsteins on a mazda 6... I'm assuming this may be a little different though.

Minimum 4 hours I imagine. You will have to have one hell uv a heavy duty coil spring compressor to do the job though. If not you may be stranded. This guy coming over thinks his will compress the springs, but if not, the Meineke told me $20.00 each strut to rebuild.

 

[quietpeen]

check this thread out....I know its a 3rd gen, but the 06-08's have basically the same front suspension

http://www.ramforum.com/f76/blistein-5100-install-2006-1500-a-8064/

 

[SMITHY]

check this thread out....I know its a 3rd gen, but the 06-08's have basically the same front suspension

http://www.ramforum.com/f76/blistein-5100-install-2006-1500-a-8064/

Well that did not look fun at all!! Hopefully with mine being new and only a 1000 miles, the **** will come apart a little easier. Hopefully.....