Sooooo...
HUGE updated on the X since my last post!
on the 4th of May I took one step closer to having a lifted Xterra, and installed the AC upper control arms and replaced a stripped out camber bolt.
I didn't have any trouble with the camber bolts being seized in the UCAs like most people do, which was very nice... I already knew one was stripped out however, which I discovered while trying to do a proper alignment on the X a few weeks prior. I picked up the parts from the dealer just down the road from work for about $21
Put all the old comber bolts in my bench vise and cleaned the threads up with a thread file before reassembly.
Good Cam washer on the left and Stripped Cam washer on the right.
Then on the 31st I installed some Delta driving lights that I took off a jeep that got traded in at work. (They told me to take them off cause they were wired incorrectly and didn't work) I also installed my Cobra 19 DX IV CB radio that my in-laws bought me for my birthday.
Then
FINALLY on the 19th of June (this past Tuesday) I installed the new Torsion bars and the 3 pack AAL!!! I was so excited about doing it that I didn't snap any pictures of the TBs, but I do have some pictures of the second AAL going on.
First I clamped the entire spring pack (excluding the overload spring) together with C clamps.
Then removed the 4 nuts on the U-bolts removing the bottom plate
Then I removed the center pin nut(which also removed the over load spring), and raised the axle off the spring pack so the center pin had enough clearance to be removed.
(Thats where the pictures ended)
After that my friend and I slowly removed the clamps from the rest of the spring pack relieving all the tension on the springs.
Then I removed the new center pin from the AAL pack slowly, relieving the pressure from them as well.
Next I lined all the wholes in the stock springs and the AAL up and began clamping the whole pack together with C clamps while guiding the new center pins through the wholes.
Once it was all clamped down I secured the nut and cut off the excess form the new center pin. Lowered the axel back down on the leafpack, installed the bottom plate, and secured the U-bolt nuts.
We let the truck down, and I couldn't believe how much taller it was!!!