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Well, last night, i did all tie rods inner and outer, adjustment sleeves, new idler, pitman, balljoints, coils, sway bar bushings, shocks and such. Decided to skip the control arm bushings for now because they were TIGHT.
But i will keep those on hand.
To add some flare to the mix,
We lowered it down a little on the lift, i was using the lower control arm with a floor jack as a way to compress the new coils while i hooked my ball joints up.... all was good... suddenly the jack slipped, shot the coil out, truck shifted a little.... We bring it all back down to ground level, get the truck back on the lift correctly... all good.... lift it back up, we're just chilling, and suddenly the whole mother ****** just fell backwards off the lift
It was one of those deals you wanted to do something, but couldnt. We just let it happen LOL
Me, my buddy, his wife, and his dad were all like..... WTF just happened
That was awesome. We underestimated how heavy the ass of the suburban was because we just had his 1 ton dually long bed crewcab up on there 2 weeks ago... no issues.... apparently the old girl is heavier in the ass than a dually! Woooooooooo we got it moved back in position with a jack and some low rollers under the frame.
Next time we brought it in the air, i stuck a piece of pipe between the concrete and the hitch and let the weight of the rear end down on that to balance it all.
Sadly no pictures of the fallen truck. No damage. The hitch dug in his concrete and stopped it from doing any damage.
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Well, last night, i did all tie rods inner and outer, adjustment sleeves, new idler, pitman, balljoints, coils, sway bar bushings, shocks and such. Decided to skip the control arm bushings for now because they were TIGHT.
But i will keep those on hand.
To add some flare to the mix,
We lowered it down a little on the lift, i was using the lower control arm with a floor jack as a way to compress the new coils while i hooked my ball joints up.... all was good... suddenly the jack slipped, shot the coil out, truck shifted a little.... We bring it all back down to ground level, get the truck back on the lift correctly... all good.... lift it back up, we're just chilling, and suddenly the whole mother ****** just fell backwards off the lift
It was one of those deals you wanted to do something, but couldnt. We just let it happen LOL
Me, my buddy, his wife, and his dad were all like..... WTF just happened
That was awesome. We underestimated how heavy the ass of the suburban was because we just had his 1 ton dually long bed crewcab up on there 2 weeks ago... no issues.... apparently the old girl is heavier in the ass than a dually! Woooooooooo we got it moved back in position with a jack and some low rollers under the frame.
Next time we brought it in the air, i stuck a piece of pipe between the concrete and the hitch and let the weight of the rear end down on that to balance it all.
Sadly no pictures of the fallen truck. No damage. The hitch dug in his concrete and stopped it from doing any damage.
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An old school technique is to chain the spring to the frame prior to ball joint separation
Man, i measured and measured and MEASURED, i saw nothing unlevel about it.
Previously i had to adjust my seat because it was "falling forward" as my wife called it (higher in the rear)
When i got in after the coil swap and all, i had to straighten the seat back out.
My dad is convinced its got the carolina squat, but i dont see it
He keeps insisting on the pinstripe level vs the ground, or parallelism of the stripe to the ground, i tried to argue and say the strip isnt straight on the body anymore since the fender got racked when the truck was laid on its side in 2000, but i cant convince the man.
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Yeah, when we lowered or raised these trucks everyday, the top full length body line, whether the truck had the two tone insert or not, would play tricks on us. I actually found that if the truck is truly level, looking at it from the front, it’s high in the front. If you look at it from the rear, it looks level or high in the rear. At some point, a tape measure on the body can prove either level or unlevel.
Since we were getting paid for satisfaction, it was an ice skating score more than true math. The spring business was good to me but I don’t miss the customers.
I like the stance myself, certainly not worth pulling the coils again.
Sorry for being long winded.
Yea cus you took the picture crooked!
to my eye it does look ass low...
Yea cus you took the picture crooked!
