Raising a 2014 Expedition
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Strut hat nuts?
Nope they arent supposed to be torqued tight anyway
Btw that Readylift thing is one weird design...makes the Daystar i had thought a flimsy POS look quite beefy in retrospect
Don't say that lol
Readylift is way better than daystar. Good luck with install. I put locktite on every bolt that is on Readylift spacer. Been on for almost 10k mikes now and zero issuesBam!
Too bad my tools probably won't be in until next week. Oh well. The pole chain saw came in today. Guess I'll be doing yard work this weekend instead.
What a failure. I spent all ********* day on this and I failed. I was able to get the shock and coil out, but I couldn't get the shock and coil back on with the spacer on. There's two bolts at the bottom of the motorcraft shock that don't come off and I couldn't get the clearance to get the shock, coil, and spacer on. Then I ****** up a sway bar link and had to race to the auto parts store before they closed.
What's up with those two bolts on the shock? I'm so defeated right now.
What's up with those two bolts on the shock? I'm so defeated right now.
What a failure. I spent all ********* day on this and I failed. I was able to get the shock and coil out, but I couldn't get the shock and coil back on with the spacer on. There's two bolts at the bottom of the motorcraft shock that don't come off and I couldn't get the clearance to get the shock, coil, and spacer on. Then I ****** up a sway bar link and had to race to the auto parts store before they closed.
What's up with those two bolts on the shock? I'm so defeated right now.
Those two bolts replace the lower strut bolt & nut seen in 07-13 iirc
They might not be in your videos or diy guides y
You COULD detach the upper control arm from the knuckle, should give you enough wiggle room
Worst case, drop the LOWER control arm, but have a spare floor jack with a 2x6 to lever it back together after THAT..
PS sway bar links are ALWAYS detached on one side (of each link) whenever doing anything with suspension
I hammered them out which made it a perfect fit back in. Then impact drive them back through the splines and called it a dayWhat a failure. I spent all ********* day on this and I failed. I was able to get the shock and coil out, but I couldn't get the shock and coil back on with the spacer on. There's two bolts at the bottom of the motorcraft shock that don't come off and I couldn't get the clearance to get the shock, coil, and spacer on. Then I ****** up a sway bar link and had to race to the auto parts store before they closed.
What's up with those two bolts on the shock? I'm so defeated right now.
Thanks guys. I did remove one side of the sway link, but then I somehow ****** it up and stripped it. Ugh. To add further insult to injury, now there's clunking going on. As I type this my wife is texting guys at her shop to see if any of them will be up for trying to fix my **** up tomorrow.
The embarrassment and failure tastes like wet shit.
The embarrassment and failure tastes like wet shit.
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I tried hammering them out, but didn't have any luck.
Only other way I to loosen the huge bolt holding the actual lower control arm on and hope it drops down enough for you to be able to apply downward pressure and pop them back in. Extra set of hands pushing down while you set the assembly back in would really help out
Upper control arm out of knuckle makes the LCA swing down
Is your Ex even lifted? Anyways @oldpaddy you will need to either punch those bolts out or loosen the LCA bolt to be able to push it down far enough to slide it in if you can’t get the bolts out. Taking UCA off the knuckle will not allow a low enough drop.
Thanks guys, I'm heading to my wife's shop in a little while and one of the guys is going to take a look. I have a feeling she's going to have him put in the spacers. Or at least check my screw ups. A friend said the clunking might be from the old shock. I hope he's right. I thought the same thing at first, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
Had Daystars (spacers), now have Ranchos (longer shock/spring set)
Further had to remove ranchos again to install new UCAs
So yeah, been there done that
Btw it's NOT just the UCA, every other bolt has to be loosened (LCA frame, LCA hub, tie rid hub afair) for some wiggle and the sway links removed to free it... THEN you can drop the LCA/knuckle/hub down plenty far enough
The trick to supensions is they have REDUNDANCY. You must loosen 2-3-4 places to get enough slack to have free movement in any one component
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Obviously he’s already done that if the assembly is out and he’s trying to put it back in...? I wasn’t going to be REDUNDANT and tell him the exact instructions that he had obviously already followed to remove the stock assembly. What the instructions don’t show you @Adieu is the updated steps needed to take to remove the two bolts in questions before reinstalling. You either need to remove them or loosen the LCA bolt to let that have more downward movement.
Did you think he magically removed the shock and spring with the knuckle still attached? I’m sure he loosened everything the instructions called for to get the assembly out. Being that it's newer, instructions have not been updated showing the newer shock mounts.
He's adding a spacer and it no longer fits back thru.
Like, duh.
Doesn't matter 07-13 or 14+, there's MANY inches of slack to work with once the hub is off the UCA... couple of inches for bolts, couple of inches to clear spacer? EASY
I f***ing know that bro. With everything loose like the instructions from READYLIFT state, there is still not enough room. The UCA is left just hanging there not attached to anything so removing it isnt gonna do shit look here: see how it’s just hanging there?
With that hanging there is still NOT ENOUGH ROOM to fit the assembly back in with the spacer due to 2.5-3” of bolts that have to make it back through the LCA. So until you deal with putting one of these in on a truck with different suspension components than yours, do me and @oldpaddy a favor and keep your incorrect instructions to yourselfYou can take the sway bar end links off, remove the spindle, loosen and remove the ball joints and still be off by 2”. I literally just did this lift on my truck 6 months ago so I would know. I ran into the same exact problem he is and Readylift said either loosen the LCA bolts and apply downward pressure or hammer out the bolts. Both work as I did one option on each side.
No where in the instructions does it say to mess with the UCA bc it just hangs there unattached to anything and you still get clearance problems until you loosen the LCA bolts
No where in the instructions does it say to mess with the UCA bc it just hangs there unattached to anything and you still get clearance problems until you loosen the LCA bolts
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