Thanks to everyone who has helped me with my lift. [MENTION=75124]Final Lap[/MENTION] [MENTION=57447]Toy[/MENTION]tec [MENTION=88391]NateMob[/MENTION] [MENTION=88576]smkd13[/MENTION] [MENTION=53470]Rockdawg84[/MENTION]
So what an exciting past 72 hours it has been. So lets start is from the top!
Monday 5pm i finish my final final of the school semester and am not ready to head back home. (im driving from Idaho to Missouri, 18+ hr drive)
6pm i finally head out on the highway excited for all these parts to be put on my rig. driving sucked! I made it to Evanston, WY at 3am and decided i would take a nap because i was getting kinda tired. I managed to find a secluded area away from traffic (not like there is much going on at 3am) so i could get some sleep, well traffic was the least of my worries with trying to sleep. now mind you i have the truck packed full of my stuff, so reclining the seat back is not an option, so imagine this, 6'2" me curled up in the passenger sleep at a gas station trying to get a couple hours of sleep in.
For the life of me i could not get comfortable, i managed to get 2 30 min naps in by resting my legs over the center console and feet near the driver side door storage space. after being so uncomfortable for an hour i decided that id rather drive instead of laying there trying to get some sleep that was never going to happen. so back on the road i go. a few hours into my drive i call up Oreilyee Auto Patrs and have them order a pair of shocks for a 96 LC (P# 34788)so they will be there for pick up when i get home.
Fast forward to 3pm when i finally arrive home! YAY! Also no one is home so its quiet (parents went out of town).
Then after unpacking a bit of my stuff i take my bike out to drive around and piss off the neighbors (i mean let them know im back in town)
So lets get started with the real fun part here. I check out the Kings i picked up from final lap. great stuff! so excited! In order to give them a proper cleaning i decide to run down the road to the shop i work at and say hi to the guys and bust these shocks down using their spring compressor.
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Then back to my place with all the parts for a proper cleaning.
Then after i was finished it was too late to take them back to the shop to re assemble them, i was going to have to wait till morning, so why not start the tear down?!!!? I started with the rears because i had all the parts for it. already. Tear down was pretty simple, take the tires off, disconnect the sway bar end links (I ended up pulling the whole thing off later) followed by the pan hard bar bolt on the axle. Then the rest was fairly easy..... (this is where someone yells Bull Shit) ok fine, this is where things got hard.
I had done rear shocks in our 4Runner B4 so it only took about 10 min each side to have them out. (cut up the sleeve with my air cut off wheel, lock on vice grips to the shaft and use a wrench up above to work the nut loose).
dropping the axle after that was pretty simple, springs came right out. This is the part where things got worse! trying to get those big damn things in! forget it!
While i had everything out i decided to clean out the top post of the shock tower mount and enlarge the hole so that a small pebble wont clog the hole and make the shock rust out.
From this point putting one super flex in was easy, by the second. not going to happen until i thought of using the factory jack. I will begin to take complements for how smart i am for doing this in 3....2....1...
Also in order to move the axle enough and not jack any wires up, I had to take a few clips off so that the cables out not get pulled on. (rear locker wires, ABS wires, Parking brake cable, Brake line) I still need to double check these are alright where they are at currently.
From this point I installed my shocks and tried to put the pan hard bar back on. This was not going to happen. Could not for the life of me get this thing back on, I would get about 3/8" off center by jacking up the rear end and using the ratchet strap. but what ever anyone says, Size does matter, 3/8" was enough to not make it happen. So this point im exhausted. Im telling out EXHAUSTED. it was 1 am when i finally called it quits. (remember i drove home all day and the night before.)
