GEN 1 OCD vs Deaver leaf pack install

[MEIRONMAN207]

So I hired the best goons I could find in So FL to “help” with the springs. So I took them to a 4X4 shop after I power lifted them onto the bed of the beast. I painstakingly researched, interviewed, outlined what I wanted and even provided printed paperwork with steps and torque settings etc. And still I had to correct a few mistakes!

 

[MEIRONMAN207]

They managed to install the new shackles backwards. Then I noticed that the leaf pack were installed with an impact vs the way I asked them to hand tight fit first and then in a two step torque cross sequence was needed to set and avoid un even install!

 

[MEIRONMAN207]

 

[MEIRONMAN207]

Had them reversed…and by then it was really late and I didn’t want to waste another day and I corrected the ubolts install at home the next day in a monsoon storm even!

 

[MEIRONMAN207]

 

[MEIRONMAN207]

Also the one bottom plate was also installed backwards!

 

[MEIRONMAN207]

Correcto and torqued properly. Also added viz markers.

 

[Canuck714]

This is why I do all my own work...lol
Nobody is going to care more than you, so dont expect a shop dude to think about it like you would.

 

[MEIRONMAN207]

This is why I do all my own work...lol
Nobody is going to care more than you, so dont expect a shop dude to think about it like you would.

I try to do the work myself, or at least I have...This time I factored time, and lack of extra help at the moment, and that I had to get an alignment also. So, I didn't really save time, and the alignment is off a little still-scheduled a re-check at their other shop that has a newer and better machine for Saturday (I spoke to the owner and will make sure that I am satisfied and will make it right)...

PS; ¿Plus how could they screw up a simple swap of leaf springs, they are in fact a custom 4X4 shop that does truck lifted Bro-trucks and mall-crawlers everyday, right?

 

[jimmyjamm]

I don't know, I had my deavers installed by a local Custom Truck shop that specializes in lifts, etc., they installed my RPG strike pads backwards, so had to have them reposition the strike pads for the air bumps the next day.
Sorry nothing better to tell you.