Bilstein 5160 - diy

2018 Tundra, I've been looking around for a while. After watching several vids I feel that I am now an expert and should be able to do it myself....

My sarcasm aside, it looks like the rears should be doable for me? Am I missing something here and getting in over my head?

 

Changing our oil is harder. you can do it!

 

such an easy task at hand... its as easy as it looks in the vids

 

Thanks, ordered them last night.

 

Most important is to watch all the brake lines not to stretch them to much other then that simple I did mine about 4 days ago

 

Rears are very straightforward, and don't even require removing wheels.

 

This looks very good. The powder coat id a nice touch

 

Yes I did my uncles about 2 weeks ago and he left his black and now that I did mine RED he liked mine better

 

For some reason red just pops on any Toyota

 

is that just paint?

 

That set up looks prime for some JBA Offroad UCA's!!!

 

It took a little while to get it done. I struggled on the first side, second side went in a lot easier.

 

How did you guage the torque of the top nut of the shock? I read that it is supposed to be 22 ftlbs. I wasn't able to get a torque wrench in that small space.

 

You cant torque it. The bushing a ton of give though so you will see it start to squish, leave some give in it for flex

 

Crows foot “socket”

 

That’s what I did. I realized before starting that I couldn’t torque it. I measured the gap/compression of the bushing and tightened it to the same measurement. FWIW it was snug at that point and would not right any further.

 

Thanks for the info. Never heard of crows foot socket.

 

Definitely good to have a set in your arsenal.