Problem Installing 885 Springs Not Compressing

I said the same thing lol

 

I did everything myself, It was pretty easy.

I don't see how it's anymore dangerouse than the compressors you rent from Autozone.

+1 on having a shop do it if your too scared, though.

 

Exactly.

 

I have personally used the auto zone compressors 4 different times. Never had and issue, yeah its scary, but not that bad.

 

I've heard plenty of horrer stories involving Autozone compressors, but have yet to here one using the jack method.

I mean honestly, what could go wrong?

 

The video method looks a bit safer. But you may run into more issues during install. The worst that could happen with the rental compressor is you lose some fingers, or a spleen, depends on where it would hit you.

 

^ Only issue I had was running out of beer half way through install

 

I've read that you can't get the compressers apart when you compress the 885 with them because the coil is so thick

 

Thanks man! I'm going to try this when I get home again...

 

Well, it worked but now I have another problem on the other side... I can't loosen the driver side lca alignment cams closest to the front, enough to drop the lower control arm... Any suggestions?

 

Breaker bar?

 

Well I got the bolt out and the adjust plate on the side facing the rear, but the Front Suspension Toe Adjust Cam Sub Assembly (facing the front of the vehicle, will not move forward enough to clear the blockers for the alignment, I tried hammering it out and I can get it to turn a little bit but no luck in pulling it out even 2 cm

 

You shouldn't have to remove the bolts, just loosen them. Them being loose should allow the LCA's to swing all the way down.

 

Yea man, no such luck. The LCA doesn't go down far enough even with the bolts removed, the cam collar is still holding the LCA in place but it's not swinging down all the way. Is the point of loosening them to allow the alignment cams to clear the little blocks put on it for the alignment?

 

No. Just lightly loosening the bolts should let it swing free. Your LCA shouldn't be stuck to the alignment bolt. Have you tried WD 40, or maybe a swift LCA kick with a boot to pop it loose?

 

For an OEM spring, I would agree with you or maybe even the 884's but with a taller, stiffer spring that causes the truck to start lifting up before the spring compresses enough for the top bolts to poke through the coil bucket just seems unsafe. To each their own but assembling the coil over on a bench and just bolting the whole assembly in place is a pretty easy procedure in my opinion.

 

You can get the top stem to poke thru, but it's safer to put the bottom two bolts in first so that they are holding the weight and tension instead of one little nut at the top stem.

So pulling down on the uca is just another part of the process. This guy just didn't do enough research on this method or else he would have known how to deal with the gap or know not to take the alignment bolts completely off.

 

There are three ways of adjusting your front suspension...

This method when done correctly, taking entire coil assembly and renting spring compressor, and taking entire coil assembly and having a shop use their wall or floor mounted compressor.

Everyone knows the third option is the best to do, but I feel much safer using the first method over the second.

 

PM Tacochaos and ask him how easy it was when we adjusted both out front suspensions at his house doing it this way. We both had 885s and billy 5100s. Piece of cake!!!

Anyone in tucson needing help with lifting their trucks just hit me up. All I ask for is gatorade and crunchies for my munches!

 

The coil compressor I rented from Autozone felt really sketchy so we tried another way. Call me ignorant or a moron for doing it this way but it felt a lot more safer and went a lot smoother this way.

We used a 3.5 ton floor jack to do this. I wouldn't feel comfortable doing it with anything but heavy-duty floor jack. I also don't know how well this would work with a spacer lift; I don't know if I'd be comfortable trying this way with a spacer lift.

We loosened the two cam bolts on the LCA, then removed the two bolts going into the knuckle. This causes the LCA to lower so we swung the loose LCA back up to its "normal" position and rested it on top of the floor jack which was raised, then we carefully removed the top middle nut of the shock.

We slowly and carefully lowered the floor jack which disassembled the shock assembly. Unbolted the lower shock and we were done. We didn't even need to unscrew the outer three nuts on the top plate of the shock.

When assembling the new coils we just bolted the lower shock into the LCA, lined the shock stem up with the hole in the top plate, jacked it up carefully and slowly, then put the two bolts back into the knuckle so that the pressure was there and on the floor jack (we didn't want the pressure to be solely on the nut on the stem of the shock, also if you can't get the two bolts into the knuckle, try pulling down on the UCA to get it to line up better), then screwed the top nut back on last.