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Old 12-24-2011, 12:50 AM
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I started installing my lift today, it has been very frustrating, the rear blocks are in, the front brackets are in and the diff is bolted in but heres my problem, the T-bars will not come out of the keys or the lower control arms no matter what I do to them, I have dropped my trans crossmember in an attempt to drop the torsion bar crossmember while still attached but now I cant get the T-bar crossmember out of the frame rails, going to give it another try tomorrow but if anyong has any sugestions i'd love to hear them
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SUCCESS! I dropped the trans crossmember which allowed the torsion bars and crossmember and control arms to come out as one piece, all brackets are on the truck, only thing left is to dress and install the spindles
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Torsion bars??
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Torsion bars??
OOPS!! Nevermind. Forgot I was not in the 04-08 section!
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Post pics! I want a rcx 6" lift for my 07.
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I need to wait for stores to open again to get some front hub assemblies, I will post pics as soon as it's done, the lift is really installer friendly, getting my 10 year old Truck apart wasn't so much fun
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Umm... Did you not buy a Torsion Key Unloading Tool?

They couldn't have really been rusted that bad, we're they?

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No issue getting the adjusters out, the torsion bars were seized into the control arms and the keys, might have gotten them out with an air chisel if I had one
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It's not the adjuster screw that needs to come out you have to compress the torsion bars with this tool, and take out the set pin to unload the torsion bars. They wouldn't come out because they still had spring weight on them.
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