So I thought I'd do a quick write up on this as I didn't see any in my searches. It's a pretty easy operation if you have the right tools and probably takes a couple hours or so. These are the spacers:
http://www.sleeoffroad.com/products/suspension_pieces_spacers.htm
Why would you install these? For me, it was to get my LX470 neutral pressures right, although others could do it for a ~1" lift.
Sorry, I didn't take many pictures, but I think it's straight-forward enough that text should do it.
Tools: Make sure you have 2 large jack stands (I used 6 ton Harbor Freight), a 2+ ton floor jack, and 12, 14, and 17mm wrenches or sockets.
1) Find a level surface with room to jack the car up. Put car in park, AHC HI, with parcking brake on. Chock the front wheels in both directions.
2) Loosen all lug nuts.
3) Jack the rear up on the pumpkin until both rear tires are around 6" off the floor.
4) Put the jack stands under the frame rails just forward of the trailing arms.
5) Lower the car onto the jack stands. Check that they are secure.
6) Remove the wheels.
7) Lower the rear axle until it reaches the end of its travel. Then jack up just enough to support underneath it so that when you do the next steps it doesn't drop down.
8) Remove the 12mm bolts holding the brake line bracket on the axle and the brake line and breather brackets on the rear cross-member. This is so they don't over-extend.
9) Remove the 17mm bolts holding the shocks on.
10) Remove the 14mm bolts holding the sway bar ends to the pieces that extend down from the frame.
11) Pry the sway bar forward out of the way.
12) Pry the shocks off their lower mounts.
13) Support one hub with an extra jack stand or jack.
14) Lower the jack under the axle, causing one side to droop.
15) Remove the spring from the side that is drooping.
16) Put the Slee spacer on above the rubber shim on top of the spring.
17) Slider the whole thing up and get it seated.
18) Jack up the axle again, making sure the spacer seats nicely.
19) Move the jack stand to the other hub, lower the opposite axle side, and repeat the spacer installation.
20) With both spacers in, jack up the axle again.
21) Reattach shocks, sway bar, and brackets, in that order. Sway bar needed some coercion on driver's side for me.
22) Put wheels back on.
23) Remove jack stands and lower the car.
24) Test drive!
Hope someone finds this helpful. At the same time I did this I cranked the torsion bars 3 full turns and dropped my front neutral pressures 1Mpa and rear down 1.2Mpa. Car rides nicer now!
http://www.sleeoffroad.com/products/suspension_pieces_spacers.htm
Why would you install these? For me, it was to get my LX470 neutral pressures right, although others could do it for a ~1" lift.
Sorry, I didn't take many pictures, but I think it's straight-forward enough that text should do it.
Tools: Make sure you have 2 large jack stands (I used 6 ton Harbor Freight), a 2+ ton floor jack, and 12, 14, and 17mm wrenches or sockets.
1) Find a level surface with room to jack the car up. Put car in park, AHC HI, with parcking brake on. Chock the front wheels in both directions.
2) Loosen all lug nuts.
3) Jack the rear up on the pumpkin until both rear tires are around 6" off the floor.
4) Put the jack stands under the frame rails just forward of the trailing arms.
5) Lower the car onto the jack stands. Check that they are secure.
6) Remove the wheels.
7) Lower the rear axle until it reaches the end of its travel. Then jack up just enough to support underneath it so that when you do the next steps it doesn't drop down.
8) Remove the 12mm bolts holding the brake line bracket on the axle and the brake line and breather brackets on the rear cross-member. This is so they don't over-extend.
9) Remove the 17mm bolts holding the shocks on.
10) Remove the 14mm bolts holding the sway bar ends to the pieces that extend down from the frame.
11) Pry the sway bar forward out of the way.
12) Pry the shocks off their lower mounts.
13) Support one hub with an extra jack stand or jack.
14) Lower the jack under the axle, causing one side to droop.
15) Remove the spring from the side that is drooping.
16) Put the Slee spacer on above the rubber shim on top of the spring.
17) Slider the whole thing up and get it seated.
18) Jack up the axle again, making sure the spacer seats nicely.
19) Move the jack stand to the other hub, lower the opposite axle side, and repeat the spacer installation.
20) With both spacers in, jack up the axle again.
21) Reattach shocks, sway bar, and brackets, in that order. Sway bar needed some coercion on driver's side for me.
22) Put wheels back on.
23) Remove jack stands and lower the car.
24) Test drive!
Hope someone finds this helpful. At the same time I did this I cranked the torsion bars 3 full turns and dropped my front neutral pressures 1Mpa and rear down 1.2Mpa. Car rides nicer now!
