Got one off! Direct hits around the arm where the trick!
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R driver L passenger on these Tough Dog tb's?
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LH is left hand RH is right hand
RH and LH never change, no matter where the vehicle comes from.
LH is Driver and RH is Passenger for our LHD rigs.
J
RH and LH never change, no matter where the vehicle comes from.
LH is Driver and RH is Passenger for our LHD rigs.
J
Tb's in, something doesn't look right? Ideas? The backside of the tb is hitting the a arm bolt and it doesn't seem to be coming out (toward rear) far enough to make good contact with the teeth.
Got it, just needed a little more muscle! Thanks J, beware of air pockets! Who knew, right!
If we're installing new T-Bars and completely removing them from the front and rear housings, do we still need to do all of the indexing and marking with white pen?
AAR:
Now that I've done the job, I realize what a stupid question that was
Also, huge kudos to this thread. Once you're under there, it'll all make sense. Fortunately, I didn't have too much problem. The 30MM moved very easily, and so did the 2 nuts on each anchor arm towards the front of the car.
I must have given them a 15min "soak" in PB Blaster before the job, but for a New England car I was really expecting much worse.
All it took after that was a little persuasion with a punch and small hammer to get the anchors off the spline, and it was just as easy to "pull" the bars out of the rear mounts.
Thanks to OP and all for these posts.
AAR:
Now that I've done the job, I realize what a stupid question that was
Also, huge kudos to this thread. Once you're under there, it'll all make sense. Fortunately, I didn't have too much problem. The 30MM moved very easily, and so did the 2 nuts on each anchor arm towards the front of the car. I must have given them a 15min "soak" in PB Blaster before the job, but for a New England car I was really expecting much worse.
All it took after that was a little persuasion with a punch and small hammer to get the anchors off the spline, and it was just as easy to "pull" the bars out of the rear mounts.
Thanks to OP and all for these posts.
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I just re-indexed my driver's side TB, i followed the instructions and turned it counter clockwise, that made the car sit real low, like tire was tucked. Not sure what was going on, so i took it out and turned it clockwise, basically opposite of the DIY and that was the right way for me, that made the car higher and i had plenty of threads left to crank it more. Anyone else have similar issue?
IIRC, CW (righty-righty) is how you increase the spring, adding height. But it's been a few years, could be wrong....
Yeah that's what i thought, but i followed the pic from the OP
he rotated it counter clockwise/downwards on the spline. I did that and it lowered the truck and tucked my tire. I did the opposite and it raised it up. Strange.
Sorry I'm doing this on my phone and it's a little bit difficult but this is my question based on the previous post.
This is a great thread and very helpful. and this is a great question I read through the whole thread and I never saw it answered directly. I'm in the process of doing this right now. Added the medium 865 to the rear and wanted to get the inch and a half in the front but I only had four turns before I bottom out on the threads. Initially I got about 1 and 1/8" lift, but after I drove it I'm down to about less than 3/4. So per instructions I'm going to reindex.
My question relates to the previous posters question. What should I shoot for? I understand I have to have an alignment afterwards but should i get my measurement and know that it's going to drop as soon as I drive it. is the alignment going to correct for that and bring it back up to the initial measurement I got before driving it? I hope that makes sense. What I'm trying to avoid is cranking up driving it bring it back and crank it up again until I get the lift i want only to go to get an alignment and its then too high.
This is a great thread and very helpful. and this is a great question I read through the whole thread and I never saw it answered directly. I'm in the process of doing this right now. Added the medium 865 to the rear and wanted to get the inch and a half in the front but I only had four turns before I bottom out on the threads. Initially I got about 1 and 1/8" lift, but after I drove it I'm down to about less than 3/4. So per instructions I'm going to reindex.
My question relates to the previous posters question. What should I shoot for? I understand I have to have an alignment afterwards but should i get my measurement and know that it's going to drop as soon as I drive it. is the alignment going to correct for that and bring it back up to the initial measurement I got before driving it? I hope that makes sense. What I'm trying to avoid is cranking up driving it bring it back and crank it up again until I get the lift i want only to go to get an alignment and its then too high.
Yeah that's what i thought, but i followed the pic from the OP
he rotated it counter clockwise/downwards on the spline. I did that and it lowered the truck and tucked my tire. I did the opposite and it raised it up. Strange.
Same thing happened for me but I still have to re index them.... great info though for sure!!
Yeah that's what i thought, but i followed the pic from the OP
he rotated it counter clockwise/downwards on the spline. I did that and it lowered the truck and tucked my tire. I did the opposite and it raised it up. Strange.
So whats the answer? What direction for the driver side i need to do mine. Clockwise or Counter Clockwise?
I did the opposite as the original post says.
So its Clockwise for the driver side and Counter Clockwise for the passenger side correct?
I believe so but im reindexing mine tomorrow so if you want to hang tight I can get you a for sure answer unless someone else knows for sure. I want to say I did the opposite of what you said but let me double check it. I know you can lift the vehicle and do one side and lower it and see if it sits higher or lower and that should tell you and then just raise the vehicle up again and do opposite depending on what your wanting.
I have AHC so its a lot more concerning because i wont see a huge drop like non AHC. Ill wait to hear from you as this thread was never clear.
So here’s what I’ll say on this. I laid under the driver side with feet out away from the vehicle and looking up I put my braker bar handle even with the front tire and pulled the handle toward the outside of the vehicle. For the passenger side I had to do the same process as far as position but on this side I turned my braker bar in toward center of vehicle. Make sure your handle is toward the front tires not toward back tires as it would possibly confuse you. Let me know if this helps.
I know how to lower and raise the torsion bars i dont know what direction i need to turn the actual bars for reindexing.
DirtDawg
"It'd be alot cooler if you did"
Lay under there, look at it reallllly hard, and I’m sure it will make sense
So for lift, the passenger side is clocked counter-clockwise and the drivers is the opposite.
