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.
