LCAs won’t go back up

Hey guys i’m installing a rough country leveling kit. i’ve got all the way to putting the strut back in but now i can’t connect the knuckle to the uca. should i jack up the lca?

 

Floor jack under the lower control arm should work

 

i forgot to mention, when i tried that it lifted the whole truck rather than just the lca.

 

Did you loosen your LCA bolts?

 

so i’ve got it up a little more but now this won’t reach. I’m new to working on trucks so i’m not very familiar with what to do. do i just need to man handle it?

 

Take the sway bar loose from both sides. That should help.

 

Yup your fighting the sway bar

 

Kinda looks like your bump stop is in the way. And you might need to remove a bolt from you sway bar.

 

I didn’t take that apart from my application. I loosened the lower part of that knuckle and disconnected. Loosen the LCA cam eccentrics if you’re lifting it. If it’s like for like height then you don’t need to.

Here are some instructions for the pro suspension installation. Maybe this will help.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sxjguie9rkx4dti/PTR13-34140inst.pdf?dl=0

 

Loosen the sway bar bolt in the front on both sides.

I had the same plm. Also, don’t tighten the sway bar until everything’s done. Had to go back and forth a few times.

 

I missed that in the picture. That will definitely make all the difference.

 

Thanks for all the replies. So i have the bolt out of the sway bar, but are you guys saying i should take it out of that slot?

 

Yeah and drop it down out of the way. Not the U-shaped brackets just the ones you already have the bolts taken out of. Swing it out-of-the-way. It needs to be disconnected on both sides.

 

also i’m starting to worry that i might’ve done something to the price i’m pointing at because the wheel mount isn’t moving the same as the drivers side

 

thanks sean i’m gonna try that now

 

You might want to try to reattach that upper knuckle. Hopefully you didn’t over extend that joint. I don’t know much about that piece and how it works internally. @ColoradoTJ any suggestions?

 

Make sure 4 wheel axle is in all the way on both sides first, then remove coil over assembly and reinstall spindle to upper control arm just get Nut snug so it does come loose. Then reinstall coil over , install top three bolts first then lower mount to lower control arm. Looks like you are fighting coilover spring tension

 

If that don’t help you might have to get coilover spring compressor to compress coil springs enough to fit in spring bucket

 

No it shouldn’t be that way. He’s fighting the sway bar as well as disconnecting the upper knuckle instead of the lower two bolts.

 

Just watch this video....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWp7oeWJlfM

And this one...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH7FQUjmu20

 

She's got a sneaky grin on her face!

Sorry, mang. I know you're struggling right now but I couldn't resist.

 

Yes, there’s a lot of things that shouldn’t be done, especially the first dude outside, but considering the pickle the op is in, a video is prolly gonna be of some help. Watching these two videos, I had mine swapped out in about 1.5 hours per side. They may not be Toyota’s way of doing it, but they’re the only 2 videos I could find on swapping out front struts and they helped me, figured they could do the same for the op.

 

Except it’s so much easier to disconnect the lower control arm from the knuckle as opposed to the knuckle from the upper ball joint. If you’re just changing like for like coilover height, you don’t even need to loosen the alignment cam bolts. Just disconnect the sway bar and those two bolts. If you read the PDF that I posted, it shows this way to install TRD pro shocks.

Obviously it can be done the way he did it in the video. To be honest that’s the first video I watched before I performed my coil over swap. Glad I got the proper instructions before I did that. Also that first video was a 2x. Less stuff to worry about messing up when you disconnect that upper knuckle.

 

Exactly^^^^^^^TJ has it covered...No need for me to chime in. Been there...done that!