- Location
- San Jose, CA
I am going to be removing the 1.5" spacers from my front 4.5" rusty's coils, and the very bottom leaf of the 6 leaf 4.5" pack. I've never liked how tall the lift was, but until I talked to a guy at rusty's the other day I didn't know what to do about the rear. I also hope this helps with my trac bar and make it less likely to break tre's in the future (scary).
What I think I am planning on doing for the coils, is jacking up one side of the axle, removing the tire, using two ratchet straps to hold the spring only as compressed as I can get it from the truck's own body weight (otherwise I don't know how to slowly release the straps if I were to ratchet the spring more) and jack stand the frame on this side, then drop the same side I just strapped back down as far as I can which I am hoping is enough to pull the spring out and then work the spacers off.
Then I will place the strapped spring back on the perch, jack the one axle side back up to meet the spring and keep jacking until the weight of the truck starts to compress the spring slightly on its own at which point I can safely and easily unstrap the ratchets from the spring and be done.
Then repeat on the other side.
Will I be able to jack one side of the axle up far enough to compress the spring enough to do this? I'll need to have the axle jacked up even further once the spacer is out to compress the spring the same amount too...
I've got the 4.5" rusty's kit with drop down brackets
What I think I am planning on doing for the coils, is jacking up one side of the axle, removing the tire, using two ratchet straps to hold the spring only as compressed as I can get it from the truck's own body weight (otherwise I don't know how to slowly release the straps if I were to ratchet the spring more) and jack stand the frame on this side, then drop the same side I just strapped back down as far as I can which I am hoping is enough to pull the spring out and then work the spacers off.
Then I will place the strapped spring back on the perch, jack the one axle side back up to meet the spring and keep jacking until the weight of the truck starts to compress the spring slightly on its own at which point I can safely and easily unstrap the ratchets from the spring and be done.
Then repeat on the other side.
Will I be able to jack one side of the axle up far enough to compress the spring enough to do this? I'll need to have the axle jacked up even further once the spacer is out to compress the spring the same amount too...
I've got the 4.5" rusty's kit with drop down brackets