Coil shock install

[boots]

Very cool!

[91Bear]

So, did you just put the truck on jackstands and take the wheels off to install the shocks? Did you have to put a jack under the axle to compress it?

[mrollings53]

So, did you just put the truck on jackstands and take the wheels off to install the shocks? Did you have to put a jack under the axle to compress it?

When I did mine I just raised the rear end and supported the axle with jackstands. Used the impact gun and took the old ones off. Hung the new shocks from the top and compressed them with a ratchet strap to align the bottom. Bolted them up then dropped the truck. Was really nothing to it. Spent more time loosing one of the small nuts on the front shocks than I did on the whole of the rear. I didn't install the gabriels like flyboy did. I went with monroe sensatrac front and rear with the springs on the rear. If I could have found the gabriels though I would have used them.