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Old Jan 16, 2010 | 10:05 PM
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Support the body high. Put that jack under one side at a time and jack it up so your forcing the axle to articulate and remove the low side spring. It helps to remove the LCAs from axle. ( see previous post) also did you remove sway bar endlinks?
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Old Jan 16, 2010 | 10:11 PM
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Do you have the nut off? Spray it with PB Blaster.
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Old Jan 16, 2010 | 10:15 PM
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anyone wana come to warrenton and do this for me?? haah
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Old Jan 16, 2010 | 10:18 PM
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Hang in there you will get it. Its all trail and error.lol Just dont start smashing things to hard trust me. lol Hammers are great when used right
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Old Jan 16, 2010 | 10:20 PM
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i am at the point where i want to make leaf spring conversion.
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Old Jan 16, 2010 | 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by ckysodkorn_xj
anyone wana come to warrenton and do this for me?? haah

Depends on where Warrenton is.
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Old Jan 16, 2010 | 10:32 PM
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in NC near virginia
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Old Jan 16, 2010 | 10:35 PM
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Just a little to far for me.
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Old Jan 16, 2010 | 10:42 PM
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lol. i will get it all done tomarrow.. anybody know how much weight a cinderblok can hold?
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Old Jan 16, 2010 | 10:45 PM
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That is a scarry thought. Please do not use those as a make shift jack stand. They can break at any moment with that much weight on them like that.
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Old Jan 16, 2010 | 11:06 PM
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need a good block to set my jack stands on lol
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