I’m not a mechanic and I seem to find questions/issues with instructions that seem obvious and known to others.
I do not recommend you work on your car, especially using instructions by me. But if you’re going to do it, perhaps the following will reduce the chances you hurt yourself or mess up your car.
The following is what I did (including some details not explicitly listed in the video) to get an ahc lift.
The reason I did the lift was because, I assume, I didn’t have enough pressure pushing down on my axle when I hit pot holes and speed bumps. I got a sort of pogo effect. My assumption is that my 91 lbs total of unsprung weight on each hub (75 lbs being oem) was too much for the stock suspension to act how it did with stock wheel and tire package…the mild lift seems to have worked to tighten up my suspension dampening.
I used this video but am listing the instructions and adding a couple things that were not included.
Note: my passenger rear, even though it was lower than driver rear, was completely maxed out on its setting before I messed with it. So there was no space to adjust it…by pressing the bracket by hand, I was able to bend it slightly and “manually” position it so that the fender height there was comparable to my rear drivers side.
After all was said and done, my fender heights, left to right, are equal height now (with front a little lower than rear as with oem). I lifted my fenders about 0.5” on average…so this accomplished an effective “balancing” of my car and a 0.5” lift.
With my larger, markedly, heavier tires and this lift, my ride dampening feels closer to stock…maybe back to stock. The car feels better on the highway. It actually dampens bumps like it did with stock wheels and tires. Comfort and sport settings actually have an appreciable effect on the ride again.
I do not recommend you work on your car, especially using instructions by me. But if you’re going to do it, perhaps the following will reduce the chances you hurt yourself or mess up your car.
The following is what I did (including some details not explicitly listed in the video) to get an ahc lift.
The reason I did the lift was because, I assume, I didn’t have enough pressure pushing down on my axle when I hit pot holes and speed bumps. I got a sort of pogo effect. My assumption is that my 91 lbs total of unsprung weight on each hub (75 lbs being oem) was too much for the stock suspension to act how it did with stock wheel and tire package…the mild lift seems to have worked to tighten up my suspension dampening.
I used this video but am listing the instructions and adding a couple things that were not included.
- This can be done in 15-20 minutes and you don’t have to jack the car up.
- Put your vehicle in normal height and take measurements of how high your fenders are off the ground…I found that my passenger front was slightly higher than driver front…and driver rear was slightly higher than passenger rear.
- Put car into high, turn off ahc, and turn off the car.
- Loosen 10mm bolt on sensor in front left (push bracket up/slide bolt down to lift the vehicle). The bolt, as you loosen it, may just spin and not loosen…if so, stick a pair of pliers between the bracket and the “connector” to hold that piece as you loosen the 10mm bolt…i don’t know that there’s a known “how much to slide the bracket to get how much lift.” You can use something sharp to score the bracket a little bit to keep track of where you want the bolt to be…and then adjust accordingly later.
- Do the same thing with the sensor on the front passenger.
- Loosen the 10mm on the rear left. Slide up bolt to lift driver’s side rear.
- Do the same with the passenger rear.
- Start the car and cycle through the low normal and high range…your car may be a bit squirrely as it figures out the new height. Remeasure your fenders and go back to adjust sensors accordingly…but if you’re close, give it some time to “settle” before continually adjusting.
Note: my passenger rear, even though it was lower than driver rear, was completely maxed out on its setting before I messed with it. So there was no space to adjust it…by pressing the bracket by hand, I was able to bend it slightly and “manually” position it so that the fender height there was comparable to my rear drivers side.
After all was said and done, my fender heights, left to right, are equal height now (with front a little lower than rear as with oem). I lifted my fenders about 0.5” on average…so this accomplished an effective “balancing” of my car and a 0.5” lift.
With my larger, markedly, heavier tires and this lift, my ride dampening feels closer to stock…maybe back to stock. The car feels better on the highway. It actually dampens bumps like it did with stock wheels and tires. Comfort and sport settings actually have an appreciable effect on the ride again.
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