*new* 4.5" 2wd lift spindles

[jhebbel]

Well that was a disaster.

On the first side when loosening the upper balljoint, I ran out of space to grip with my 10mm wrench to stabilize the ball joint before the nut was off, so not only could i not get the nut the rest of the way off I also cannot tighen it back down, So im going to have to drive it into the shop with a loose upper balljoing on the driverside....

 

[jhebbel]

Giving it one more shot this friday, Bought a more powerful impact wrench and plan to take the control arm nuts all the way off before breaking the spindle loose of it as I saw in another video, this in combination of soaking the **** outta them with PB blast I hope to get it apart with no issues this time.... hope...

 

[jhebbel]

YAY! Got the spindles on, wow what a pain. Got tons of air into my brake system though so i'm going to take it to get bled.

Can anybody post a few shots showing their brake line routing, I feel there is way to much slack and too high a possibility of a kink or pinch.

This is just the front, didnt put the blocks in the back yet because I was too fustrated to do any more today.


Update: The back is in now too. Looks good! Love the kit, except for the geometry of the spindles where they connect to the upper C-Arm, The way they are made makes it insainly difficult to work on that upper balljoint bolt and impossible to get an impact wrench in there, I see no reason they couldn't have followed suit with the OEM arm how the bolt is located in front of the spindle arm making it easily accessible, doing so wouldn't have changed anything with the steering geometry.

 

[Kasey Krumwiede]

No need for longer shocks up front, just longer shocks for the rear

4.5" spindle (and brake lines) + 2.5" level = 7" FRONT
4" rear + longer shocks= 4" REAR

DONE

So if I have a 1.5in level up front and I get the 4.5 spindle that puts me at 6in up front how much would I need for the rear? 3in block?