Another 5100/AAL Thread

Howdy everyone.

A couple weeks ago I ordered the 5100/AAL kit from @HeadStrong Off-Road. Marie was awesome to deal with and shipping was fast, everything showed up packed very well and intact.

This morning with the help of 2 friends I was able to pull the old stuff off and install my shiny new parts.

My truck is a 2005 DCSB off-road and has 165k on it. I bought it a little over a year ago in my hometown of Fairbanks, Alaska and drove down to Rexburg, Idaho to where I go to school. The old suspension was pretty tired from being cycled so often on the frost-heaved roads of interior Alaska, so I found some newer-take offs on a classifieds site and installed the AAL earlier this week.


There was one little hole in the rear shock box but the shock itself was unscathed


I put the AAL together with my new-used leaf pack in my apartment



My new leaf pack with AAL compared to the old

New leaf pack in-place



Thats all I have for now, but I will be taking more photos and putting them up here.

 

I'm looking at this same setup.. Cant wait to see the after pictures.

 

Nice! Get those pictures up!

 

Op still working on his truck? lol

 

I got everything all installed, just havent taken photos to post

 

Got some photos. I didnt take any right before the install but I have a few from a few months ago and from when I first got the truck.


When I First purchased truck:

After 2500 miles down the ALCAN HWY:

Towing a boat this summer:

Some quick shots from earlier today: