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just picked it up...ended up being 170 bucks for alignment and for them to do the pitman/idler arms...he said it was the most difficult pitman arm hes ever done...ended up having to use a 5 ton puller on it..but its all done now..and im fine with that..after wasting over 5 hours trying to get it off lol

im sitting about the same as before...i had just the keys but they were decranked as far as you can go..so about the same drop, but i have perfect camber, rides 100x better and the rear is still old parts...i have my turning radius back and the tires dont chatter..

tomorrow im going to work on the rear and get the rims on..ill have some pics then
 
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Got it all done..rides so nice now...still a tiny bit rough, but youll have that with the 24s and being lowered..i can live with it now..

just a few pictures of everything
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it looks like your rear shocks are upside down. they will go bad if you drive on them like that.. i only know this because thats how i had mine and tony informed me they were wrong. i flipped em over and they were blown out.. im still waiting on my new ones to get here. just thought id let ya know

did it lower you any more?
 
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Turn shocks other way asap !!!!!!!

rear looks dumped
 

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it looks like your rear shocks are upside down. they will go bad if you drive on them like that.. i only know this because thats how i had mine and tony informed me they were wrong. i flipped em over and they were blown out.. im still waiting on my new ones to get here. just thought id let ya know

did it lower you any more?

Some shocks are meant to install like that. My Bilstein 5100 shocks are meant to be installed with the piston facing down.
 

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yea ive seen them installed like that before too. which is why when i installed mine i didnt think that it mattered, but tony informed me that it was wrong and could ruin them. so i turned them over and sure enough they are completely blown. they werent even 4 months old... and by looking at the pics, they look like the same shocks that i was running, djm 1800
 

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djm shocks are not meant be body up. im sure his ride will be better once he flips it over. The tb springs with djm shocks rides good..... if the shock are in right lol
 

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