Warrior 153 shackles installed.

[Mike65]

Today I took a couple hours & removed the old badly rusted Ford factory rear spring shackles, & installed a set of the Warrior 153 shackles. First thing I did was to loosen the upper shackle nuts to make sure the bolts were not rusted into the bushing sleeve, & fortunately they were not. I put a set of heavy duty jack stands under the rear leaf spring forward mounts, removed the rear tires & set the truck on the stands. The lower passenger side bolt that goes through the leaf spring bushing was stuck, so I sprayed it with more PB Blaster & using my air chisel with the punch attachment hit the bolt a couple times it it busted loose. From there it took me about 1 hour to replace both shackles with the Warrior 153's.
Old shackles pass. side on the left, drivers side on the right,

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• Mike65
• April 27, 2019

Old factory shackles.

Warrior 153 shackles installed,

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• Mike65
• April 27, 2019

Warrior 153 shackles installed.

Before Warrior 153 shackle install,

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• Mike65
• July 1, 2016

99 Explorer Sport, 4.0 SOHC, 5spd auto, 4.10 rear gears, P/W, P/M, P/L, cruise, & Pwr Sunroof...

After Warrior 153 shackle install.

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• Mike65
• April 27, 2019

My wife's 99 Sport with Warrior 153 shackles installed.

The rear of the Sport sits about 1" higher with the new shackles, I might have to crank the torsion bars a little if my wife doesn't like it that way.

 

[XPLORER9773]

Looks good. Reminds me of the Sport I had in college.

 

[Spudhut]

Looks great! Nice and fast job!