Duc Hunter
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Ah, now this is how they should have come from the factory. I will post more pics when the weather clears up and I can bath her. I use the Nitrous Enterprises lift kit (4inch front, 3.5 inch rear to maintain a little of the stock rake). My girlfriend had ordered it before all the dust got kicked up around NE and I was conversing with Tracy about it before she left NE. I talked to Anthony and he simply said if I was unhappy in anyway he would give me my money back, no questions asked. He also volunteered to come help me install it. I decided I could give him a chance and he was nothing but nice to me.
Now that the disclosure is out of the way. The install was easy, thanks to whitney8 for the recommendation to use a Pitman Arm Puller instead of a sledge hammer. The install took about 4 hours and only one snag was hit. The ride is wonderful, esp considering I have not had it aligned yet. The other advise I have is when doing the front end removing both sides of the ft sway bar allows it to swing out of the way easily. On the rear we used my stock jack between the rear axle and the frame to get enough separation to make the rear spring install easy.
What was the one snag? When we tried to remove my left rear shock the metal collar that is inside the lower shock bushing was frozen to the axle. When I twisted the shock the bushing moved. I tried pounding of off and I just burst the rear shock. The answer was a large Pitman Arm pulled. I was shocked that it was so tough, so my advise to everyone is pull the lower shock off the mount and grease it! I did on my new ones.
Here are a few pics.
This is the front bushing, now are they perfectly clean and shiny and painted, no. They are VERY strong! YES! I was stunned at how hard the plastic is, impressive stuff. Also those bolts are Grade 5, as provided by Anthony.
Before
After
I must say my experience with NE has been a very good one. Anthony was very nice and generous with his time. The product is very nice as well.
Now I need new tires! The journey never ends. I am going with BFG AT’s, they are great tires that I have experience with. The Revo’s/Michelins seem to be great too, just not quite aggressive looking for me. 95% of my driving is on the street. I will probably get 265/70.17’s since I want to maintain a full size spare under the bed, I do not want to cut very much if anything and I am not sure I want to get new wheels. I believe I need to get new wheels if I want to run 285’s. I may try them if I can find a shop who will mount on for a test fit. Thanks to everyone here for all the great info posted on this site. It was invaluable to me on this little endeavor.
Now that the disclosure is out of the way. The install was easy, thanks to whitney8 for the recommendation to use a Pitman Arm Puller instead of a sledge hammer. The install took about 4 hours and only one snag was hit. The ride is wonderful, esp considering I have not had it aligned yet. The other advise I have is when doing the front end removing both sides of the ft sway bar allows it to swing out of the way easily. On the rear we used my stock jack between the rear axle and the frame to get enough separation to make the rear spring install easy.
What was the one snag? When we tried to remove my left rear shock the metal collar that is inside the lower shock bushing was frozen to the axle. When I twisted the shock the bushing moved. I tried pounding of off and I just burst the rear shock. The answer was a large Pitman Arm pulled. I was shocked that it was so tough, so my advise to everyone is pull the lower shock off the mount and grease it! I did on my new ones.
Here are a few pics.
This is the front bushing, now are they perfectly clean and shiny and painted, no. They are VERY strong! YES! I was stunned at how hard the plastic is, impressive stuff. Also those bolts are Grade 5, as provided by Anthony.
Before
After
I must say my experience with NE has been a very good one. Anthony was very nice and generous with his time. The product is very nice as well.
Now I need new tires! The journey never ends. I am going with BFG AT’s, they are great tires that I have experience with. The Revo’s/Michelins seem to be great too, just not quite aggressive looking for me. 95% of my driving is on the street. I will probably get 265/70.17’s since I want to maintain a full size spare under the bed, I do not want to cut very much if anything and I am not sure I want to get new wheels. I believe I need to get new wheels if I want to run 285’s. I may try them if I can find a shop who will mount on for a test fit. Thanks to everyone here for all the great info posted on this site. It was invaluable to me on this little endeavor.
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