Owners manual

51315

Created

12.1.05

INSTRUCTIONS:

1) Place floor jack under front axle and raise vehicle. Place jack stands under frame ahead of the

axles. Front tires should be approximately 2” off the ground.

2) Remove front shock absorbers from the vehicle.

3) Remove the nuts, cushions and bolts holding the stabilizer bar to the axle housing.

4) Place the floor jack under the front axle housing.

5) Mark the position of the front drive shaft spline to yoke alignment. Sometimes the drive shaft

will separate during disassembly.

6) Remove the u-bolt nuts, u-bolts and spring plates from the springs.

7) Lower the axle enough to enable removal of the springs. Be careful not to stretch, kink or pinch

the brake hose and lines.

8) Remove the shackle pins and the hanger pins from the springs.

9) Remove the front leaf springs.

INSTALL FRONT SPRINGS:

1) Center punch drill hole locations 2-1/4” on center of the frame mount bump top plates. Drill

two 11/32” holes in each bump stop plate and de-burr as shown in ILLUSTRATION 1. 90-2088 bump

block can be used as a template to lay out location of holes.

AXLE HOUSING

TORQUE

ROD

BRACKET

WARNING:

FAILURE TO USE THE BUMP

STOP LOWERING BLOCK KIT,

WILL VOID THE WARRANTY

AND DAMAGE YOUR LEAR

SPRING

FRAME

ILLUSTRATION 1

BUMP PLATE

DRILL

BUMPER

LEAF

NEWLY INSTALLED BUMP

BLOCK

BUMP

PLATE

ILLUSTRATION 2

FRAME

90-2088