1985taylor1925
Senior Member
I just got my tundra front set up. The last time I changed my front coils I just rented the tool from autozone, which is supposedly dangerous, but worked just fine.
Today I tried another method. I lifted one side, removed the three nuts for mounting the top plate to the frame, then removed the nut that holds the shock on. I then lifted it more until the spring pushed the control arms down as far as it would on its own. Then put a jack bewteen the top control arm (turn the toyota jack up side down and put the the end right against the upper ball joint nut. works great) and top of the inner wheel well, and started jacking the control arms down.
I think this would have woked well with stock coils. But with my PP coils which are significantly longer I had the control arms cranked to a ridiculous angle, and the coils were still under compression. I forgot to disconnect the sway bar at the beggining, which probably would have helped a ton by relieving pressure. But my fear was that I would damage the cv, or ball joints, or really screw up the alignment with pushing the arms so far down.
Has anyone used this method with success with AFTERMARKET coils? Again, with the shorter length of stock coils I probably could have had them off no problem. Just wondering if anyone has done this and can offer advise. Otherwise its back to the tool from autozone which takes forever and is a ton of work.
Today I tried another method. I lifted one side, removed the three nuts for mounting the top plate to the frame, then removed the nut that holds the shock on. I then lifted it more until the spring pushed the control arms down as far as it would on its own. Then put a jack bewteen the top control arm (turn the toyota jack up side down and put the the end right against the upper ball joint nut. works great) and top of the inner wheel well, and started jacking the control arms down.
I think this would have woked well with stock coils. But with my PP coils which are significantly longer I had the control arms cranked to a ridiculous angle, and the coils were still under compression. I forgot to disconnect the sway bar at the beggining, which probably would have helped a ton by relieving pressure. But my fear was that I would damage the cv, or ball joints, or really screw up the alignment with pushing the arms so far down.
Has anyone used this method with success with AFTERMARKET coils? Again, with the shorter length of stock coils I probably could have had them off no problem. Just wondering if anyone has done this and can offer advise. Otherwise its back to the tool from autozone which takes forever and is a ton of work.
