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Old May 17, 2007 | 08:00 PM
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I messed up pretty bad, I am not real sure what I did wrong, but I changed the ball joints upper and lower, and inner tie rods on my 2000 Dakota 4x4. I tore everything out, control arm, hub assembly shocks, torsion bars basically the whole front suspension! I got everything changed out put the tire back on lowered jack and truck fell almost to the ground. I have no clue what I did wrong. But if it weren't for the rubber stoppers the bottom of my truck would rest on the ground. I read later to mark the torsion bar. I didn't do that just put them back in the arm and anchor tightened it up and this is the results. Is my problem in the torsion bar. Can I reinstall them without taking the control arm off again which would mean ruining my new ball joints? How do I correct my mistake?
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Old May 18, 2007 | 01:49 AM
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Sounds like ride height adjustment, never having touched orlooked at a 2000 dakota I would ASSUME you need to **** on the torsion adjuster bolts a bit, the torsion's on car's is guesstimate bolt adjustment enough to have it of the stops and adjust up from there and level it out. There are LH and RH bars and should be marked. Marking I would think is for a re assembly starting point, I mark the adjuster bolt/count the threads before dis assembly of these kinda things.
 
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