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Finished putting mine on about an hour ago. followed the directions here and everything went smooth. I don't know about leaving the lower strut bolt in as it came out so easily I didn't see much point in it. A couple things I wished I would have had are wrenches for the sway bar nut and ball joint nut instead of just sockets. That way when I had to hold the bolts with a small socket I could have turned the nuts with a wrench instead of a cresent wrench. Also my 30mm socket was way too shallow (couldn't find a deep well) so I loosened it from the bolt side with the 1 1/16 socket on a breaker bar far enough out until I could get the 30 mm on the nut. Luckily the 30 mm held the nut just far enough to where I could get it snug from the bolt side putting it back on then torqued from the bolt side. I guess I'll tourque the nut when I get back to work and find a deep 30mm. That bolt came out pretty easily though with just a breaker bar. I used the hammer method on the ball joint and it worked just fine with about 3 or 4 whacks on the ball joint. I left the bolt on a little on the first side but got confident on the second side and took it all the way off and just put the jack under the control arm and no problem whatsoever. It was much faster taking the nut all the way off as the tension on the joint was still there so it didn't spin at all. I guess I'm off to get an alignment first thing tomorrow. I swear it looks so much higher now that I won't be able to get it out of the garage though. Pics soon I hope. Thanks to all who posted here. I would have never tackled this job myself without this write up. 2 1/2 " made it look perfect.
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