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Originally Posted by RocktimusPryme

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If I were to give more advice about doing it yourself, I would say getting the mounting ears dead clean helps a lot. Its such a tight fit, and if you use urethane like I did it doesn't compress at all. You need every fraction of space you can get, so there cant be any built up road grime left in the way. using rubber might make it a little easier because it will compress a little.

This is true, and you can smear a little assembly lube on them to help.

They go in easier at a specific angle, which is outside it's normal operating range. Like, jack the thing way up, slide the ends in the tabs with the control arm pointing as far down as possible, and you can use a dead-blow to whack at the ball joint area. (And wherever else needed). It's usually tight towards the outside of the tabs, so sliding it in more from the bottom get around that. Some.


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