05 front shock replacement w/o spring compressor

oh yeah I don't have sway bars lol

but temporarily removing that would definitely help with packaging everything in there, good catch

 

Hyrule_trd, so can I ask if you did remove the entire sway bar (end links and support bushings) to get it out of the way? Or did you remove the sway bar links and just loosen the front support bushing bolts?
Also, I assume you loosen the lower control arm bolts to get it to freely move in order to lower it as much as it goes? Is it straight forward to reposition the cams on the lca bolts?
So it wasn't too bad doing it this way?
Thanks for the help.

 

Anytime.

yea, I just removed the bolt from the spindle from both sides and was able to turn it out of the way.
I had marked the cams but don’t think they moved anyway. It is easy to align them if the do, just make sure you have something that will turn the cam. It’s pretty big. I loosened the forward nut on the front and the rear nut on the back cam. I didn’t think it was bad, I had a tougher time adjusting the spring seat nuts. like @y=mx+b I used the bottle jack to hold up the wheel.
just take your time lowering the jack when your ready to take the pressure off the spring.

 

So I just received my new stock shocks and there are no rubber bushings with them (it is what I expected) and I will want to put new rubber bushings in both the front and rear. Do these sell as kits for all four shocks or how and where do I get good replacements? Thanks

 

Just got done with the shock replacement using the method described and it worked beautifully. I had more problems getting the oem strut top hats off than anything else. I also had a hard time with the stabilizer bar getting it out of the way but all in all it was an easy process. In my case I was dealing with so much rust underneath I had to clean up 2lbs of it when I was done. Just have to pay attention to what you are doing and gets things torqued to the specs. Thanks for the help. Paul