So as far as reloading the brake lines go, I pulled this away right there so you can
see the brake line coming through here.
This is the brake line we’ve been working with.
I pulled it out of the little bracket and I’ve been bending it very very gently with
the…those I have…those pliers.
So just kind of bend it just a little at a time.
I’ve kind of rerouted it back through there.
I put the torque’s head back in and screwed it right there.
And this is still pretty loose.
I’m not going to tighten it up just yet, I just have it in position.
I’m going to go ahead and put the shocks back in after I get the leaf springs on, and
then make sure the line is in a spot where I want it because with that screw back there,
I only want to deal with that as much as I have.
Plus if you strip that thing out you’re pretty screwed.
Anyway, so that’s how you reroute the brake lines, and I’ll make it all look pretty
as soon as I’m done…kind of like tuck it back in there…pull it down at the top.
The main thing is you just don’t want it to interfere with any of the suspension system
like when the shocks are back in and it goes up and down, you don’t want the brake lines
to go anywhere near there.
So right here are the tube lines.
This is the hard line that comes from the front, this is the line that goes down at
the back, this is the driver’s side tire right here.
What we’re supposed to do is we’re supposed to unclip this and have a little Z drop bracket
where we connect this onto.
I can’t get this apart for the life of me and I really don’t want to take….I don’t
want to break either of these lines cuz that’s another couple hundred bucks in brake repairs.
So what I’m doing is I’m spinning this bracket down which will give me another two
or three inches of room and give this brake line enough room to fluctuate.
As you can see right now it’s got plenty of flex in it and I’m only bringing the
jeep up 4 inches so we’ll be plenty good from there.
Anyway, so that will save me some time and effort just by bending this down.
You just want to be really careful with these lines and not kink them or break them or anything
like that.
Ok so we’re underneath the front of the jeep where we’re taking off the pitman arm.
It’s attached to the steering gear right here.
This bolt is a 33 millimeter bolt.
I thought it was going to be a lot harder to take off than it was.
Basically what I did is I took some of this PB Blaster stuff and sprayed it last night
and left it sitting over night and sprayed it a couple times this morning, then took
my 33 millimeter socket head and my breaker bar and just popped it right off.
So yeah, once I get that nut off I’m just going to take off this other one.
I’ll hit it with the hammer a few times and hopefully it pops right off.
I have a pitman arm puller too so hopefully that will help me out.
Alright this is the armlet side.
This is a 19 millimeter bolt; just broke that loose with a little tiny socket.
There’s a cotter pin inside of that as well I had to remove.
It’s pretty simple.
This guy right here is a pitman arm puller.
It’s pretty much the most important tool when you’re removing a pitman arm.
So what it does is it slides up in the groove right there and then the end of the bolt right
there has a little divot in it, and then the peak of the tool also has a divot in it that
fits right inside.
So I’m just going to kind of tighten it up in there.
And as you tighten it, it just pulls the arm right off.
There’s a little socket that fits around the end of that.
Ok so once you get the pit bar off, the other end you just have to tap it a few times.
It’s kind of like a bolt that’s tapered on the end.
You just got to hit it up and out of there.
Ok underneath the driver’s side leaf spring, I just barely took off the u-bolt nuts, dropped
that plate down.
Now I can take off the leaf springs themselves with these bolts right there.
I believe they’re 19 millimeters on the front and these ones I think are a 21 and
a 22; I’ll have to double check that though.
So yeah, now that I have that off I have the axle supported because once I get that leaf
spring off there’s going to be nothing else supporting the axle on this side.
So I have to make sure that’s all propped up, so it should be good.
Ok so this is the part where the front of the leaf spring on, we’re at the front of
the jeep here.
You can see that this is the inside of the bushing on the leaf spring.
I got the leaf spring out but the bushing stayed in.
So I gotta cut that off because there’s no way this is…it’s kind of stuck on the
whole bolt there.
It’s kind of unfortunate.
Alright so this is the leaf spring.
Those are the nuts on it that would not come out so I ended up cutting them off.
What happens is is that bolt right here actually just gets seized up inside of the bushing.
Sorry it’s getting kind of blurry there.
So it’s completely stuck inside of there.
There’s no way of getting that out.
I tried wrenches, I tried breaker bars.
I tried WD-40.
I tried that other lube stuff and nothing worked.
So I just have a drill here.
Not the best tool you want to use but there’s a little grinder plate attached to it.
Probably go through about three of those a bolt.
Anyway, kind of a pain but when you’re out in a parking lot with no extension cords – well
we’re not allowed to have extension cords so this is your best bet.
Anyway so sometimes that’s what you got to do.
Ok so right now I’m just getting some of this grease like I did before and put it down
inside this hole.
Get it all around in there.
Just so that bit doesn’t seize up on it…on the bolt like it did before.
This is just helps if like the springs have a brake and the next guy who repairs it has
to fix them, he doesn’t have to cut them all out like I did.
Anyway, that will help you out in the long run.
So we’re still on the driver’s side here.
I have this little contraption rigged up so I can get that moved over.
So I can get these holes lined up with the leaf spring.
So as I click this, that pulls that towards me and gives me more…almost lines these
up.
We’ll give it another tug or two.
Perfect.
Push there and it will go right in.
So this is the upper strip of the leaf spring.
You can see the little knob right there at the top.
Inside of the axle mount there’s a little hole where it has to slip down inside of it.
So what I’ve done is I’ve loosened up the u-bolts on the other end so I can have
a little bit of play in it.
And then I’m just going to kind of jiggle it back and forth until it slides down into
place.
Ok so with these u-bolts, these go through over the axle and through the leaf springs.
There are two different sizes.
There are going to be two of these bigger ones and the bigger ones go on the front axle.
And then there’s going to be 6 of these other ones.
And the other ones, you know, there’s the 4 on the back and then the two on the front.
These kind of….like on the axle there’s another bracket that these have to fit over.
And I’ll show you those when I’m installing it.
Just so you know, just make sure not to include the big ones on the back axle or anyplace
weird like that.
Ok so we’re on the front axle.
I just want to show you where the bigger u-bolts go.
You can see that it has to fit over the top ledge right here.
So the bigger u-bolts are on the inside.
And you can see down here at the bottom how these ones are spaced farther out than these
ones are.
So the big ones go on the inside and same thing with these ones right here.
This u-bolt is sitting on top of this ledge so it’s the bigger of the two.
Those are the only two big u-bolts that there are.
Okay so when you’re installing the new shocks, you just put the bolt through the bottom there.
Usually the shocks come bound in some kind of way so they don’t stretch out.
It’s easier to ship and stuff.
I put the rubber washer and the metal washer on it and now we just have to extend it up
into the housing there.
So what I’m going to do is I’m going to cut that and it will extend on its own and
I just have to kind of guide it in there.
It’s a lot easier with two hands, I’ll tell you that.
And then by its own means it’ll go right up in the top there.
Then I’ll put the other washer on top with the little groove there so it will go down
inside the metal housing….like that.
And then the nut goes on top of that.
So once I tighten it all down, that’s how you install the shocks.