Garage Sale and Jeep Lift Kit
Please buy our crap! We started off the morning by having our semi-annual garage sale. Got the new signs out by 6:30am and the customers began rolling in. By 10:30am most of the traffic had slowed down and we were getting tired of sitting in our driveway. We packed away what was left and counted the cash drawer. Woo hoo, a profit of $104. Here's a picture of everything right as we got it set out.
After taking a break for an early lunch, it was time to begin installing the lift kit and new shocks on the Jeep. Here are 2 before pictures.
I started by jacking up the front end and getting it on jack stands. The first picture below is an action shot that Marcia captured. With the tires removed, the second picture is of the old setup before I removed anything.
I had to take out the old shocks and remove the springs to fit in the spacers. The shocks were fairly simple with a bolt at the top and bottom. You can see me removing the top bolt in the first picture. I had to get a step stool to reach with the Jeep so high off the ground.
In the next two pictures, I am all done with the front. You can see the new white shocks and the shiney black spacer at the top of the spring. To get the spacer to fit I had to compress the spring and disconnect the sway bar to give me enough room to fit everything in.
In the next picture, I had put the wheel back on, but the front end is still up on jack stands so there is more space in the wheel well with no weight on the suspension yet.
Done with the front, we turned the Jeep around and got the back end up on jack stands. In the first picture, you can see the old setup before I began.
Everything was very similar in the rear except the shocks mount slightly different. Here's what it looks like when all done.
And here are the after pictures with everything put back together. Not really noticable from looking at it, but the new shocks are awesome. We soon realized the old shocks were way past being worn out. The ride is noticably better/smoother now. Next update, tires!
After taking a break for an early lunch, it was time to begin installing the lift kit and new shocks on the Jeep. Here are 2 before pictures.
I started by jacking up the front end and getting it on jack stands. The first picture below is an action shot that Marcia captured. With the tires removed, the second picture is of the old setup before I removed anything.
I had to take out the old shocks and remove the springs to fit in the spacers. The shocks were fairly simple with a bolt at the top and bottom. You can see me removing the top bolt in the first picture. I had to get a step stool to reach with the Jeep so high off the ground.
In the next two pictures, I am all done with the front. You can see the new white shocks and the shiney black spacer at the top of the spring. To get the spacer to fit I had to compress the spring and disconnect the sway bar to give me enough room to fit everything in.
In the next picture, I had put the wheel back on, but the front end is still up on jack stands so there is more space in the wheel well with no weight on the suspension yet.
Done with the front, we turned the Jeep around and got the back end up on jack stands. In the first picture, you can see the old setup before I began.
Everything was very similar in the rear except the shocks mount slightly different. Here's what it looks like when all done.
And here are the after pictures with everything put back together. Not really noticable from looking at it, but the new shocks are awesome. We soon realized the old shocks were way past being worn out. The ride is noticably better/smoother now. Next update, tires!
posted by Virgil | 4/14/2007
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