Wife and kids stranded

glad the only thing hurt was your pocket book.....

 

What was the cause of the front wheels being locked up?

 

Holy shit!

 

Oh ok, I wasn't really following but remembered the first day it saying the front wheels were froze up.

 

Give it enough throttle with the e-brake on...rear tire spins but seems like the front is locked up.

 

@Matt3400 - Willing to let us know which shop it was?

 

Mine tastes like pineapple. Or so I've been told

 

Probably many people do not. If doing so isn't in the installation instructions, probably gets skipped.

Definitely something to be worried about, jack your truck up by the frame one side at a time until you get full droop at the rear tire. Look at the stock rear rubber brake lines.

May be that the brake lines are the only thing keeping the axle from full droop, especially on the driver side. E-brake cable the same, as this thread suggests.

9" braided brake lines cure that, messy job when I do it on jackstands. I bet if you look at a TRD Pro you'll see there is a 2" plastic block Toyota added to drop the brake line mounting point, functions the same as extended brake lines to compensate for the additional droop.

 

He's probably yanking your chain.

 

The Bilstein 5160s come with a small alloy block spacer which functions as a brake line extender. They include pictures with the install instructions.

 

Sent you a PM.

 

The Ridgeline is also a 3.5, but it's also a car. I guess Honda got that one right.

 

Wife went down to the dealer to have them show her what is wrong. 1st pic is how they received it. 2nd pic is where they will relocate the bracket once the lines are replaced.

 

Yea they are selling the hell out of those ridgelines sport

 

Here's my E-brake line extension bracket... that still tore my line under off roading flex at Jambo.

 

I hadn't even taken it off-road since I had the kit put on. I'll take a look at options when I get back, but as of now I'm still going to sell it.

 

Is it longer lines or is it just a dropping bracket that’s needed.

 

What shop did this install....

Take those bottom shock bolts out n flip them around so the nuts are on the bottom... if in the event the nuts come loose like they currently are the bolt will fall right out.

So much fail here.

 

Pic 1, seems to me that wasn't the stock location for that E-brake cable bracket. I don't have a 3rd Gen, but generally Toyota has them low, like Pic 2. The lift installers may have done wrong. I wonder if the driver side bracket is the same.

 

You told me that....