I'm trying to explain to my dad that putting a new suspension and lift on my jeep is easier than he thinks I helped my buddy put his on and it works amazingly , he thinks that it's to hard and only a shop can do it . YOUR OPINION= do it our selves and save money or sen it to a shop and pay a lot more than we want?
Well I'm 17 so yea I'd love to have a bigger off tool but my dad in my luck has all those tools . And just by research it'd a pretty simple process is it not???
Unless your father was kind enough to be the one paying for it without you having to pay it back.... just do it yourself. Not hard, can be a little frustrating and time consuming but its a good learning experience and youll have the satisfaction of knowing you did it yourself. Plus, then you can take the money it would have cost bringing it somewhere and put that back into your rig.
Based on this statement make sure you can get the bolts loose that go thru the leaf springs first. Soak them with PB for awhile. You might want to pick up a small propane torch or even have a sawzall on standby. Mine were a #$%^$%
Based on this statement make sure you can get the bolts loose that go thru the leaf springs first. Soak them with PB for awhile. You might want to pick up a small propane torch or even have a sawzall on standby. Mine were a #$%^$%
YJs are easy to lift your self no real special tools just a jack good jack stands a can of penetrating oil and time. There is a great seance of pride doing it your self. I started small now into building 3 different jeep projects a whats left of a toyota pick up truggy project, doing all the work to my DD and helping friends.
There's no chance my dad would ever be willing to help me tackle a lift install, even in my you get years when I lived there. If you guys have been doing everything yourselves up to this point, I would see no reason not to do the lift also.
It's pretty simple and relatively self explanatory for the most part. A 4.5" grinder will make quick work of stuck bolts, and only costs about $20 at harbor freight or stores of that kind. A propane torch helps out also.
I'd say to tackle it yourselves. You'll never have a better time to bond than while getting an older vehicle running and looking good. My dad was quite the mechanic in his younger years, but by the time I was old enough to wrench he had stopped doing any work on cars and stuff.
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