Gadgetory

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 a little bracket and I've been bending it very very very gently with the those I have pliers just kind of like finished a little bit at a time I've kind of rerouted it back to you there I put the Torx head back in the screw screw right there and this is still free loose I'm not going to tighten it up just yet I 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 lines in the spot where I want to put that screw back there now they want to do 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 to 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 be anywhere near there so right here 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'll unclip this and have a little D 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 alliance because it's not a couple hundred bucks in break affairs so what we're doing is I'm just bidding this bracket down which will give me another two or three inches of of room and they 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 four inches so we'll be we've plenty good from there anyway so I'll save me some time and effort just by bending this down you just wanna be really careful with these lines and not kink em or break them or anything like that okay so underneath the front of a Jeep Wrangler 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 larger takeoff than it was basically what I did is I took some of this pv blaster stuff sprayed it last night left it sitting overnight and then sprayed it a couple times this morning and then took my 33 millimeter socket head and my breaker bar just popped it right off so yeah so once I get that nut off I'm just going to take off this other one hit with the hammer a few times and hopefully that pops right off I have a tip in arm polar to you so that'll help me out on this side this is a 19 millimeter bolt just broke that loose with little tiny sake there's a cotter pin inside that as well I had to remove it pretty simple but right here is a pitman arm pore that's pretty much the most important tool when you're removing a pitman arm so what it does is it slides up in that groove right there and then the end of the bolt right there as a kind of 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 so let's do it cuz the a little socket that fits around the end of that okay so once you get the pit are off the other end you just have to tap it a few times it's kind of like a it's a bowl that's kind of tapered on the end just got to hit it up and out of there okay underneath the dress I leave spring I just barely took off the u-bolt nuts drop that plate down now I can take off the the leaf springs themselves with these bolts right there I believe there are 19 millimeters on the front and these ones I think is a21 and a.22 off 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 of 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 okay this is the part where the front of the leaf spring on or in the front of the Jeep here I'm you can see that this is the inside of the bushing on the leaf spring got the leaf spring out but the bushing stayed in so I got to cut that off because there's no way this is it's kind of stuck on the whole bolt there kind of unfortunate all right so this is the get to focus here 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 not right the 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 it there's no way of getting that out tried wrenches tried breaker bars tried the w4t try that other Lube stuff nothing worked so I just have a drill here not the best tool you want to use 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 not you're in a parking lot with Noah extension cords well we're not allowed to have extension cords is your best bet anyway so sometimes that's what you got to do okay so right now just get some of this grease like I did before and just kind of put it down inside this hole get it all around in there just so like the that bit doesn't seize up on it on the bolt like it did before this just helps like if the if it springs of a break and the other guy the next guy who repairs it has to fix them doesn't have to cut them all out like I did anyway that'll help you out in the long run forced it on the driver's side here I'm going to have this little contraption rigged up so I can get that moved over so I can get these holes lined up with the leaf string so as I click this that pulls that towards me gives me more almost lines these up so we'll give another tour - perfect push there and I'll go right in this is the upper set the leaf spring you can see a little knob right there at the top I'm inside of the axle mount there's a little hole where that has to slip down inside of it so what I've done is I've loosened up the u-bolts on the other end um so I can have a little bit of play in it and I'm just going to kind of juggle back and forth until it slides down into place it's with these u-bolts these will go through the over the axle and through the leaf springs and there's two different sizes there's going to be two of these bigger ones and the bigger ones go on the front axle and then there's going to be six of these other ones and the other ones there's you know the four on the back 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 I'll just make sure not to include the big ones on the back axle or anyplace weird like that okay so we're on the front axle I just want to show you where the bigger u-bolts go I'm you can see that as to fit over the top of this ledge right here so the bigger u-bolts are on the inside and you can see going at the bottom how the these ones are spaced farther out then these ones are so the going seven same with this one over here this u-bolt is sitting on top of this ledge that's the bigger the two those are the only two big u-bolts that there are okay so when you're installing the new shocks just put the bolt through the bottom there I'm using the shocks compound in some kind of way obviously don't stretch out it's easier ship and stuff I put the rubber washer in the middle washer on it and I just have to extend it up into the into the housing there so I'm going to do I'm going to cut that and it'll extend on its own nice have to kind of guide it in there a lot easier too with two hands I'll tell you that and then by its own means it'll go right up into the top there then I'll put the other little washer on top with a little groove there so we'll go down inside the middle housing and then nut goes on top of that this once I tighten it all down that's how you install the shops