hahanson

Eh.. never mind. I'm a dumbass.... got a cup of coffee and figured it out!

techrep

iTrader: (1)

You can't leave us in suspension...

powerranger262

hahanson

LoL... nice pun!

I needed a bigger pry bar!

I couldn't get the steering knuckle high enough to connect the upper ball joint/control arm. I put a jack under the lower control arm and lifted it, and it lifted the truck clean off the jack stands and still couldn't reach.





What I found was that you had to push the upper control arm down way beyond what looked reasonable in order to do it, so I got a bigger pry bar and - viola!





It just looks wrong, but once the entire weight of the truck is on the front end, the control arm & steering knuckle has clearance from the strut springs.

2008__XL

That's quite the angle. What size level did you put on there?

hahanson

2.5





It just looked wrong, but once the entire weight of the truck is on the front end, the angle on the ball joint is not so extreme: