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Originally Posted by cycleboy
I just finished w this. The front wasn't bad but the rear was a pain in the ass!
I was swapping out LCA's also. The hard part was getting the struts/springs to compress enough to get the bolts back through the LCA. Driver's side was especially hard. About 1.5 hr for the front and 5 hr for the rear!!!
I don't have a good way to torque the top nuts without spinning shafts. I marked one with a sharpie and tried it and it had rotated a quarter turn and I wasn't at 41lb yet. Not sure how to finish it???
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I didn't swap out my LCA's, but I did remove the lower shock bolt, sway bar bolt and inner hinge point bolt on the LCA. To compress the spring, I used a hydraulic jack to push the arm up, while carefully guiding the shock shaft.
For torquing the top nuts without the shaft rotating I used a pass-through socket set with a "T" handle allen wrench. This won't get you the exact torque setting, but it shouldn't be to difficult to approximate. At Harbor Freight you can get both tool sets for less than $30. Not the highest quality tools, but IMO perfect for this task.