Today is the day.

[Clusterpup]

I'm off to go park my truck at my sisters place and install the body lift. Wish me luck! :

 

[ncranchero]

Lots of luck ! We'll be looking for an update.

 

[MidnightRebel07]

Good luck man. Not too hard. Hopefully you kept presoaking all the bolts for the last couple days with PB Blaster. If you need any tips or help don't be afraid to ask.

 

[OffTrac]

It's been 3 hours...where's the completed pictures? lol

Good luck! Can't wait to see the results.

 

[Clusterpup]

LOL, I'm of to get a 15mm wrench to remove the front bumper because its aparently the one size I dont have or a deep socket. I removed one the cab body mounts, it was a ***** but it came out so we are making progress slowly.

 

[TmacTrac]

Let me know how it goes, I'm putting mine on NEXT weekend! If you have any tips or any problems help me out!

 

[GRNMACHINE]

Done Yet??

 

[MidnightRebel07]

I removed one the cab body mounts, it was a ***** but it came out so we are making progress slowly.

Please tell me you're joking, right?? You leave the boundy mounts on and just put the 3" pucks on top and replace the factory body bolts with the longer ones. LOL

Just messing with ya, all that mud made for some bad seizing on the bolts huh? lol.

Just loosen all of the body bolts first "don't completely remove them until your ready to jack up each side and place the pucks and new bolts in".

Good luck with the rest of the BL.

 

[LONO100]

we will be needing picks after this weekend is over! btw, im in the shasta trinity forest and im getting internet coverage. sprint rules.

 

[Clusterpup]

I'm having problems trying to detach the parking bake cable, anyone? I'm not sure how I'm supposed to do that. BTW, this humidy here is killing me. It was raining off and on today.

 

[MidnightRebel07]

I bent the bracket to get it out and then straightened it back to bolt the extension bracket on.

 

[Clusterpup]

What is the braket that dosconnects the cable, it it where the cable split apart? The crown looking thing? Or is it that thing along the cable towardes the back that connects two peieces of the cable?

 

[MidnightRebel07]

I couldn't get the clips to all go in at once so I took a pair of vise grips and bent the bracket back to remove it

 

[Clusterpup]

So its the crown looking thing then? This is making me crazy, the whole project is at a stand still for almost two hours because I can't figure this out.

 

[MidnightRebel07]

Yep, you need to either get that through the hole and slide the cable through the slot or you can do what I did.

 

[Clusterpup]

Well I think I'm less then halfway done and I worked on it all day today. Will try to get it done tomorrow (crossing fingers). Wow what a major PITA.

 

[Clusterpup]

Also, at the end of the day we were trying to loosen the drivers side body mount bolt under the kick panel and the size of the disc or washer thing is so big that its really hard to grip. I'm using the second to largest size channel locks you can buy at home depot, I don't think the larger size will even fit in there to grab it but I was having a major hard time trying to prevent that thing from spinning. Maybe I was just tired, I will try again in the morning. I sprayed the hell out of it and the passenger side mounts with more PB Blaster before I left. I'm not a weakling, maybe its the fact that my truck was at one time wrecked to the point the frame was out of alignment, maybe that was making things harder. It was totaled at one point from hitting a parked car and it has been rear ended when previous owners had the truck. It s a mess, I'm sore.

 

[MidnightRebel07]

No, it's just that those bolts are a huge PITA and they put loctite on them from the factory so their pretty locked up. I used a long half inch rachet wrench and a floor jack handle on that for more leverage. For the cups on the bottom I used vise grips, got them on as far as I could onto the cup and as tight as I could, locked them dow up against the body mount and the frame to keep them from turning. If you have a welder handy tack a piece of metal to them and then to the frame, I wish I would've had this when I did mine but I just thought of it. It took my buddy and I all day just on the bolts and both of us felt like we were hit by a truck at the end of the day. Good luck tomorrow.

 

[Clusterpup]

Good advice on using the vice grip for that, I'll give that a try. Worst case, if I can't do it I'll bug a friend that has a stick welder I can use and try tacking something on to prevent spinning.

 

[MidnightRebel07]

You'll need some one holding onto the visegrips really tightly because they'll try and come off while your cranking on the bolt. Were you able to get the parking brake out of the plate and remount it to the extension bracket?