it's a stupid question, but I'd rather ask a stupid question instead of do something stupid. Putting rancho shocks in the front tonight, they come completely compressed. how do i get them to expand, elongate?

 

most of my shocks that i have installed expanded by pullin them what kind did you get that may help a little?

 

rs5000 how exactly would i 'pull' them? i would install then let the weight of the wheel do the pulling, but they're too short to install

 

give em a twist...

 

tried the twist first. didnt do it.

 

feeja ill be their in 3 hours bro im leavin now..lol i would but supper is on in a few.
take 2 long screw drivers and put them into the hoops on each end and pull the $hit out of them. if that dont work you got the wrong ones

 

Talk REAL NICELY to them.

 

was even easier than that. I just put my claws around the damn thing and pulled, that did it. no hoops on one end on these, just have a stud on the top end.

phucking old shocks were like everything else with this truck, rusted on, damn chicago saltin the **** outta everything. had to cut the stud off of the top of each. took about 2 hours to take the old ones off, and about 10 minutes total to put the new ones on. WOW what a difference, should never have waited this long to get them. and now I got two more made in USA parts on the truck.