It's late and I've been staring at this too long, so Im just stopping for the night. Got the entire front on but my shackles are sitting cocked out and not like the pics I have referenced. Thanks all, will start over tommorrow...
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should look like this
are your front/rear springs oriented right? looks like a lot of leafs.
HTH.
are your front/rear springs oriented right? looks like a lot of leafs.
HTH.
that's what I was thinking...
x4, those be your REAR springs bro. Good thing that we just figured that one prior to you running the Baja with them like that...woulda been one hell of a bumpy ride.
REALLY bumpy.
Now, get
'n!
REALLY bumpy.
Now, get
'n!
Yeah those are your rear springs on the front, you must have been tired!
Has anybody mentioned that you may have put your rear springs on the front?
Make sure you put the "A" spring on the driverside rear.
Looking at the bright side of things. Your bolts will come off real easy since they have not had time to Rust.
Make sure you put the "A" spring on the driverside rear.
Looking at the bright side of things. Your bolts will come off real easy since they have not had time to Rust.
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DOH!!! I should not have been working on my truck in the middle of the night on cold medicine!!!! I figured since the springs were much bigger that they were for the fronts to support the weight of the motor. That was a minor f#(k up. At least the bolts will be easy to take out
it can happen to anyone
flip and rotate your shackles while you're at it.
They are on right, the anti inversion bar should be oriented on the backside of the shackle at the top. Its a goofy angle in that pic.
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is one set of grease nipples on the inside of one shackle and the outside of the other? Or are they both supposed to be on the outsides of the shackles?
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And my buddy took the front and rear shackles out and put everything together before realizing that some greasable bolts are longer than others! Are the longer ones for the front or rear, or a mixture of both? Hear the trainwreck coming?
rearAnd my buddy took the front and rear shackles out and put everything together before realizing that some greasable bolts are longer than others! Are the longer ones for the front or rear, or a mixture of both? Hear the trainwreck coming?
yeah.. it looks cattywhompus
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Thanks fellas, I'm going to get over this flu before going back to get it right!!
remember the leaf wrap on one end of the spring goes towards the fixed point, not the shackle
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Thanks, so the pic I showed when moved to the rear the Dakar sticker ie where the leaf wrap is will be at the fixed point? And do the slightly longer bolts go with the slightly bigger shackles in the rear?
