Okay. Now we're going to go ahead and remove our stock track bar from this 2010 Dodge.
Before you remove the track bar on any vehicle, you want to make sure that the truck is resting
on its tires with full load on the suspension. We've got this up on jack stands, so full
load's on the suspension, I guess you would call it. The track bar doesn't have tension
on it this way. You want to make sure that you want to do that so you don't want to have
it suspended on a two post lift where the axle is hanging free. That's going to have
a lot of tension on the track bar. You're not going to be able to get it out. You want
to make sure that you've got it up on jack stands.
You are going to be reusing the hardware on this, so keep track of your hardware. Also
on certain model years of the Dodge's, you've got a different size bolt between the driver's
side and the passenger side. So you want to keep track of where everything goes and what
bolt came from where.
The good thing about the Dodge's is the Dodge's have got the keeper on the back of the nut.
So you don't have to have a wrench on the back here. It will automatically stop itself.
We're going to go ahead and drop this track bar out first bolt on the driver's side here,
this is 13/16ths.
Now we're going to switch over to the passenger side. We're going to go ahead and remove this
bolt now. This is also 13/16ths with keeper on it. Then, we're simply going to remove
the track bar.
This keeper stays. We'll use it to line up the bolt for the 2010s is actually going to
be the same between the driver's side and the passenger side. So we're in good shape
there.
Okay. So now we're going to press our sleeve and our bushings into the track bar in pieces.
In your hardware kit, you'll receive two different sizes of sleeves. What we want to do is we
want to match up our bolt size to the sleeve size. For our 2010, it's going to be the larger
sleeve. It's going to be the same on both ends. Again, remember watch this because you
want to make sure you get to the right sleeve. Some of the year Dodge's have got two different
size bolts. Some of them got the small bolts on either end. So make sure you get the right
sleeves for sure.
Also inside your kit, you're going to get a pack of lube. What we're going to do first
off is we're going to get our lube opened up here and we're going to put a little thin
layer grease on our polys. Then we're going to put two polys in per side. All I did there
was set that down on a flat surface, then go ahead and get your polys in. Again on the
other side on the long bar.
Now I'm going to
put our sleeves in. Put a little bit of lube on them as well. Same deal here, one you get
started in, then just push all the way in. So, let's get our sleeves in.
Now we'll assemble the track bars. Now that we've got our sleeves in, and our bushings
in, and we want to put our jam nuts on the track bar ends. One track bar is left hand
thread at one is right hand thread. When you go to put your jam nuts on, you want to make
sure that you get the right threadings and the etchings or the arrows or numbers are
going to point towards the end of the track bar. This is our left hand thread. We're going
to run it all the way up, and then our right hand thread on the long bar, we're going to
run it all the way up as well.
Okay. Now, before we do final assembly of the BD track bar, we have to get some measurements
from our stock track bar. Our stock track bar, what we've done we've just laid it out
on the bench. We're going to measure from center to center of the sleeves on the old
track bar. So center to center, this truck is 38 and 5/8th's. I'm sorry, 38 and 3/4s.
So, that's how we're going to set our BD track bar as well. We're going to set it at 38 and
3/4s inches. When we set it up, we want to make sure that we have the same curvatures
and the same alignment on everything on the track bar, just for ease of going back. So,
38 and 3/4s, and get our old track bar out of the way.
We're going to bring our adjusting sleeve in now. Our adjusting sleeve is marked with
left hand thread and right hand thread. We're going to go on the left hand thread side now.
I'm going to run it in here a pretty good ways. Feel like it will probably be to the
end of the bar. Now, the right hand thread.
What we're going to do is we're going to clamp this so we can run this one side down on this
short side, because of the short sides got just a little bit of a rough place in it.
Now I've got about an equal number of threads showing between
the two ends. I've got about three threads showing here, which this is just on my bar,
three threads showing there. I've got about the same amount engaged inside the adjustment
sleeve. I'm going to bring my track bar over and I'm going to make sure that I've got the
ends going the same way, which of course, that end is wrong.
Okay. Now, it's going to have... It looks just about the same as far as distance goes.
Okay, now we're going to measure and see where we're at. We're we're looking for 38 and 3/4s.
We are exactly 38 and 3/4 right there. That's perfect. 38 and 3/4, that's where we want.
We're going to leave the jam nuts. We're going to leave them loose for right now until we
get it inside the truck and get everything lined up the way we want it. So now we'll
take this over to the truck. We're going to install in the vehicle.
Okay. Now we're going to reinstall our track bar. We're going to start on our passenger
side first with the new poly bushings. It's going to take a couple of little tasks to
get it seated back into the pocket.
Now with our passenger side in, we're going to go ahead and start our driver's side. We
dad to adjust our track bar out just a little bit to get our alignment right for the top
bolt. We're going to start our top bolt back now.
Now that we have both of our frame bolts in, what we're going to do now is we're going
to turn our jam nuts down and we're going to tighten those up against the adjusting
sleeve.
Our final step is going to be to tighten both of our mounting bolts down to 150 foot pounds
of torque. We're going to do the other side. Now the adjusting sleeve, it says to tighten
to about 225 foot pounds. You've got to get an open end wrench on it. So just tighten
it very, very tight for sure. We're going to tighten the other side and that's going
to complete the installation of our BD track bar on this 2010 Dodge.
After installation, you want to take the truck and have the truck aligned for sure. The alignment
will be a lot simpler with the adjustable track bar and the adjustment sleeve. All you
have to do is back the jam nuts off, and you can make the adjustment of the axle with the
adjustment sleeve. I'm going to tighten up this other side and that's going to complete
our installation.
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