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Old 09-10-2013, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by fooseF150
No it was easy with the wheels on. I just went under and unbolted the u-bolts one side at a time. Once they were unbolted I jacked the truck up by the leaf spring (only half inch or so) slid the block out and dropped the jack. Tighten bolt and repeat the other side.
Do you have a torque setting for the U-bolts?
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Originally Posted by F-250,LD

Do you have a torque setting for the U-bolts?
I read on another thread that it's 90 ft.lbs. Not 100% sure though. I re-used my u-bolts so they were too long to get any kind of socket on. I Just got them as tight as I could with a wrench.
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Originally Posted by fooseF150

No it was easy with the wheels on. I just went under and unbolted the u-bolts one side at a time. Once they were unbolted I jacked the truck up by the leaf spring (only half inch or so) slid the block out and dropped the jack. Tighten bolt and repeat the other side.
Did you only unbolt one side, remove, rebolt, then work on other side? Or did you unbolt both sides before you jacked up one side?
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Originally Posted by ianinedm

Did you only unbolt one side, remove, rebolt, then work on other side? Or did you unbolt both sides before you jacked up one side?
I just did one side, then the other.
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Looks awesome! I've had mine out for over 75,000 km now, but need to go moar low.

Ian, told you it was easy. Lol :p You just need to go for it.
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Looks awesome! I've had mine out for over 75,000 km now, but need to go moar low.

Ian, told you it was easy. Lol :p You just need to go for it.
I'm too chicken ****. you got me all nervous when you talked about the driveshaft falling out!
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Originally Posted by ianinedm

I'm too chicken ****. you got me all nervous when you talked about the driveshaft falling out!
Lol. Just pretend I never said it...

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Old 09-13-2013, 08:33 PM
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Finally decided to pull mine. It wasn't too tough over all. I was lucky I had an impact socket set and adapters to fit my cordless impact drill. No way I could have fit my corded one under the truck.

Anyways. Do this on level ground my driveway has a small slope but it caused the posts the plate under the leafs to not line up to the plate on the axel. Just a hair off, but grabbed my neighbour and just rolled the wheel forward a bit as I lowered the springs back down. All's good and looks great.

Here are the before and afters.
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Looks good guys!
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Looks great! All Limited's should come factory that way.


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