leveling kit install- Epic Fail

[gtex1970]

i must be losing my touch. nothing went easy in my attempt to install the rough country kit and I had to punt. boogered up the sway bar link trying to remove it and couldn't get the axle to drop far enough to removed the coil, much less re-install the coil with the new spacer.

now I probably need to get a new sway bar link and maybe try again or just pay somebody.

i've previously installed full suspension lifts on several vehicles, removed and installed engines and transmissions, full on body swap on a pickup truck, built a roller rocker Ford 428... kind of embarassed to fail on this...

 

[crazykid1994]

I stripped out one of the sway bar links on my truck removing to install the bilsteins in the front. It’s a process to do the level kits on the trucks. Took me 5 hours plus I had to order a sway bar link


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[17CrewCab1500]

1500s are a pain to work on. I can do a front 3" and a rear 1" for a 2500, with shocks faster than a freaking level kit for a 1500.


So when it comes lift time on my truck, you are saying it's well worth to have someone else do it? haha

 

[zeddy]

When I did my 2inch thuren spring, I only undid the shocks. Axle went down enough for me to remove the stock spring and install the 2inch spring.

 

[gtex1970]

finally victorious. after getting some more tools at Harbor Freight, the kit is installed. I found the trick for me was wedging a small bottle jack between the frame and trailing arm to help get some separation for the coils to go in and out. I think my parking was also in a a bad spot, on a slight angle at an angle.

greg

 

[mohemipar]

Fails happen all of the time. Even on the simplest, stupidest stuff. A common one for me has always been some how missing the catch bucket with fluids. Even when I try hard not to miss lol.