Truck is now level and air bags in the back!
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Truck is now level and air bags in the back!
i heard some good around here about the air bags, so i picked up a pair of air lift ride controls. there awesome!
Here is how i levelled my truck with out any torsion bar tensioning tools, modded c clamps, nothing! Started off by jacking up the front and putting it on stands so the tires were off the ground, ripped off the tires and disconnected the shock and sway bar end link (at the top). allowing the torsion bar to un torque damn near fully. then i went under neath the truck and use a floor jack with a 6" length 3/8 ratchet extenion and put matched it up with the adjustment hole on the key and kept it straight up and down and jacked it up a couple pumps, almost no effort involved. unscrewed the bolt, took out the bolt. hammered the torsion bar lose, pulled it out backwards so the key could drop down low enough to slide off. through the new key in, used the jack and extension to put some tension on it as my friend stood on the rotor up front to help twist it some more. went in beautifully. put a tiny bit of tension on the key and through everything up front back together (shock and sway bar end link). then did the same for the other side.
after everything was said and done i realized i couldnt lift the front as much as i wanted to-to level it out because my stock shock was bottoming out. so it is still a little down in the front until my new Rancho RS5000 come in (probably monday
). and im going to get an alignment for it once my new shocks come in no point in getting it done twice!
I put in the airbags a couple weeks ago and im not explain how that went, looong story. but here are some pictures! i took them just now so it is kind of dark out. i will take more when i can raise it perfectly with new shocks in day light!
couldnt get last one to work so here is a link
http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=truck011.jpg
Here is how i levelled my truck with out any torsion bar tensioning tools, modded c clamps, nothing! Started off by jacking up the front and putting it on stands so the tires were off the ground, ripped off the tires and disconnected the shock and sway bar end link (at the top). allowing the torsion bar to un torque damn near fully. then i went under neath the truck and use a floor jack with a 6" length 3/8 ratchet extenion and put matched it up with the adjustment hole on the key and kept it straight up and down and jacked it up a couple pumps, almost no effort involved. unscrewed the bolt, took out the bolt. hammered the torsion bar lose, pulled it out backwards so the key could drop down low enough to slide off. through the new key in, used the jack and extension to put some tension on it as my friend stood on the rotor up front to help twist it some more. went in beautifully. put a tiny bit of tension on the key and through everything up front back together (shock and sway bar end link). then did the same for the other side.
after everything was said and done i realized i couldnt lift the front as much as i wanted to-to level it out because my stock shock was bottoming out. so it is still a little down in the front until my new Rancho RS5000 come in (probably monday
). and im going to get an alignment for it once my new shocks come in no point in getting it done twice!I put in the airbags a couple weeks ago and im not explain how that went, looong story. but here are some pictures! i took them just now so it is kind of dark out. i will take more when i can raise it perfectly with new shocks in day light!
couldnt get last one to work so here is a link
http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=truck011.jpg
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^^^ +10, the air bags are great....seem to make the truck ride better out back and increased the load capacity in my lowered truck...plus they make it nice if your towing a heavy nose trailer, just air up the bags and truck is sittin level again
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