SantaCruzRunner
Senior Member
bottle jack is your friend :frog:
Bilstein Lift
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audiness
Senior Member
bottle jack is your friend :frog:
^^^^^ This bottle jack method is the ONLY possible way that I can think of to move the lower mounting hold low enough to install longer coil-overs. It seems not right when you are doing it, I used this same method and I literally thought It was going to blow my ball joints to pieces, but they held.
Qyota
New member
Not the ONLY way, but one of the ways. I sat on the end of a 5-foot piece of 1" black pipe that was levered between the frame and the LCA. If I had a helper, it would have been hard. By myself, it was all I could do to get it LCA low enough. I was extremely pissed the rest of the day...but happy that my lift was in! I used the "assemble upon installation" method, so the coil, isolator, and shock all had to be balanced in one arm, while aligning and positioning with the other arm, all the while sitting at the far end of this 5-foot pry bar. It wasn't pretty. Those shock assemblies are fookin heavy!
SCRunner12
New member
I've used the bottle jack method 5 times now and it works perfectly. Although I recommend placing the end of the bottle jack behind the castle nut on the UCA so it doesn't accidentally slip and is more secure.
SantaCruzRunner
Senior Member
yeah we figured that out later.....
audiness
Senior Member
yea, i was a bit scared that my jack was going to slip out, because it's literally at face level when you're down on your knees doing the install. SCARY!:jaw drop:
