Rough Country 4"/6" kit install tips.

[ChrisAU]

Can you elaborate on that, I'm not catching what you're saying. You didn't take the tension off the bars????

He dropped the crossmember, torsion bars, and LCA's all in one piece. I'm not sure how people do it really, when you disconnect the lower ball joint this causes the LCA to want to swing down, and just seems like more trouble than its worth.

 

[RyanR]

He dropped the crossmember, torsion bars, and LCA's all in one piece. I'm not sure how people do it really, when you disconnect the lower ball joint this causes the LCA to want to swing down, and just seems like more trouble than its worth.

Got that right... interesting way of going about it but it sounds like a hassel

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[oohunter04oo]

No I didn't drop it all at once... All you do is, (and I never once felt unsafe) take the adjuster bolt all the way out, remove the knuckle, have a jack under the lower control arm and lower it down all the way. Loosen the bolts for the LCA and let it swing down as far as possible. When u do this the bar is completely unloaded and you can take that little pin out. So I took a air hammer and knocked the bar forward thru the little hole on the crossmember and the key fell out. Then I left the bar in the LCA and removed the LCA and bar together. And installation was the same just reverse. Easy as pie!!!

 

[ChrisAU]

Hmmm he may be on to something here.

 

[oohunter04oo]

Hmmm he may be on to something here.

Telling ya, simple. Now if you are doing something and not planning on removing the LCA then the tool is the way to go by far!!!

 

[oohunter04oo]

And if you were installing this lift and were not changing balljoints you could leave the upper and lower control arms bolted to to knuckle and remove them all together.

 

[Askme42]

He dropped the crossmember, torsion bars, and LCA's all in one piece. I'm not sure how people do it really, when you disconnect the lower ball joint this causes the LCA to want to swing down, and just seems like more trouble than its worth.

This is how I had to do it. It sucked but my torsion bars would not come out.

 

[Vortec Lover]

Looking to be doing this soon- I'm 90% sure that I'm just going to be leaving my ball joints and stuff alone because I had the truck aligned about nine months ago and told the guy to check it all out, he said it looked great. My angles are perfectly flat and have never been touched, plus I don't have very many miles yet compared to most of you people haha.

I will definitely be referencing this page-

 

[Vortec Lover]

And if you were installing this lift and were not changing balljoints you could leave the upper and lower control arms bolted to to knuckle and remove them all together.

I need to go through the instructions yet, but just because I am curious, do the instructions say to unbolt them?

 

[bluex]

I need to go through the instructions yet, but just because I am curious, do the instructions say to unbolt them?

Yes, they do. Not a necessary step though...