hey yall.
bought myself some el cheapo advance coil spacers to just pick up the front end a bit. they are 1 inchers so im not expecting that much difficulty, but after searching here for a bit I have questions:

1. being thats its a 1 inch spacer will stud extenders be necessary?
2. Its the type of coil you can "thread" in the coil or place below it. which is better? if I "thread" it in then this question invalidates the first.
3. If im going to thread them in, how do I drop the lower control arm to the point where I can. Ive seen and read how to remove the coil but I have no compressor to get it back in.

heres how i understand it.

jack up truck till both tires dangle (remove tire from installation side)
support A-arm with second jack.
undo sway bars links + shock respectively
pop out upper ball joint from spindle
push down on A-arm
- - - question at this point is: will the coil be bent at such an angle from the A-arm being so far down that it will "fling" out? - - -
lubricate and thread in spacer and reverse previous processes?
correct or off target here? not wanting to buy a compressor but living is high on my list of "to-do's"

 

That sounds right, that's how easy it is to remove the spring on my truck. I didn't need compressors. but putting them back in it would have helped slightly.

But given the age difference I wouldn't say for sure.

 

this is goin down next weekend along with me and pats lighting project. then 2 weekends after that I will be showing you how horribly my truck wheels haha

 

lol You guys can come up here, I gots a coil spring compressor if it makes you feel better. :-P

You'll be seeing how horrible my truck looks in person. xD

Pat already knows. lol

 

yeah whatever. meet you halfway...so melbourne? i dont need you just your compressor

 

Haha, I have a little compressor, but I have air tools.

Melbourne isn't that far. You guys get better milage then me. haha

I might be going out to Bithlo for Sunday Funday tomorrow though, gates open at 10.

 

10 AM??? dude ill go. ill facebook you my number. serious. im like an old lady here. neglected and i need people to hang with. bithlo was goin nuts tonight. its trucks gone wild right now! redneck WOOT!

 

Really? It isn't on the track schedule, and they were just at Cowboys.

 

yeah I was out fishin like i told you earlier and all you could hear from campus to oveido was the roar of american v-8s and no exhaust haha so loud and i was probably 3-4 miles away. an di drove up to the gate to watch and evidently one truck rolled over it was huge though. didnt have cash on me so i did a uturn but i wanted to go

 

Nice, I wanna see some big fords. lol

 

I second that crap!