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[crenca]

I did it the hard way as well (jacking control arms trying to get right tension, back and forth back and forth, etc.)...If only I had simply unbolted the sway bar itself

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[ThunderFlash]

I did it the hard way as well (jacking control arms trying to get right tension, back and forth back and forth, etc.)...If only I had simply unbolted the sway bar itself

@NMWildtrak or @crenca, any chance you could help a stooge like me out? Looking at my pic below, do I have the LCA mounting clevis oriented the same as yours? @Jakob1972, that is how yours is oriented, right?

I got the links installed on my WT after A LOT of what felt like excessively forcible persuasion. Then after looking at it more, I took the links back off. I was afraid if the bar and LCA were cycling under loads, the lowered blue link lug, circlip, and bearing would come apart.

To get the upper link bolt through the sway bar, the link had to be forced as far forward as it could travel, and then a little further. The lower lug on the Walker link was at its maximum misalignment angle and the blue lower link lug itself was hard up against the LCA mount clevis ear. It was like that on both driver and passenger sides. From what I can tell, I have the LCA clevis installed in the correct orientation per the BOSS instructions. It seems it might fit better if I rotated that LCA clevis 90 degrees from its pictured orientation, though.

I also noticed in a review someone said they needed a sway bar relocation kit because of their lift. I have 1.5" to 2.0" of lift with my Eibach Pro Trucks. Maybe that is increasing the misalignment? Can't think it would since the maximum droop position for installing the links is the about the same as OEM. Do you guys have any lift?

Any thoughts or insights would be greatly appreciated!

 

[BroncoStang]

@NMWildtrak or @crenca, any chance you could help a stooge like me out? Looking at my pic below, do I have the LCA mounting clevis oriented the same as yours? @Jakob1972, that is how yours is oriented, right?

I got the links installed on my WT after A LOT of what felt like excessively forcible persuasion. Then after looking at it more, I took the links back off. I was afraid if the bar and LCA were cycling under loads, the lowered blue link lug, circlip, and bearing would come apart.

To get the upper link bolt through the sway bar, the link had to be forced as far forward as it could travel, and then a little further. The lower lug on the Walker link was at its maximum misalignment angle and the blue lower link lug itself was hard up against the LCA mount clevis ear. It was like that on both driver and passenger sides. From what I can tell, I have the LCA clevis installed in the correct orientation per the BOSS instructions. It seems it might fit better if I rotated that LCA clevis 90 degrees from its pictured orientation, though.

I also noticed in a review someone said they needed a sway bar relocation kit because of their lift. I have 1.5" to 2.0" of lift with my Eibach Pro Trucks. Maybe that is increasing the misalignment? Can't think it would since the maximum droop position for installing the links is the about the same as OEM. Do you guys have any lift?

Any thoughts or insights would be greatly appreciated!

I'm on a 2.25" zone lift and didn't need a relocation kit. I did have some issues though trying to get them lined up properly and for the life of me I couldn't get both ends installed without undoing the brackets for the sway bar. Once I popped the bolts off the sway bar brackets I was able to get both links installed and lined up properly. Getting the brackets bolted back on was another fight but it was significantly easier than fighting the links, I was very meticulous feeding the bracket bolts back in but once they bit enough thread I was able to get them bolted back up using the force from the ratchet tightening them.
They do cut it close to the LCA but I've put a good 10k miles on since the install and they've held up fine.

 

[ThunderFlash]

I did have some issues though trying to get them lined up properly and for the life of me I couldn't get both ends installed without undoing the brackets for the sway bar.

Thanks for the reply! Your LCA clevis is in the same orientation as mine in the picture? I'm thinking I need to rotate the clevis clockwise as far as I can without the steel clevis digging into the aluminum LCA. It would be nice to be able to tighten that connection after everything is fit up.

 

[Jakob1972]

I have about 2” lift from the Dobbies it did come with a relocation spacer for the swaybar and I did have a hard time lining things up until I went to the other side and loosened the swaybar end links.
But they did well on the trip to Baja. This was the biggest improvement as far as comfort I have done with the suspension.

 

[ThunderFlash]

OK, thanks @Jakob1972 and @BroncoStang. Maybe I just got to give it another go and just embrace the fact that it's going to take some force to assemble. The stock links have more articulation and go together pretty effortlessly.

As I had it installed, I was trying to imagine how the link would behave once the suspension LCA was articulating and sway bar was deflecting. It just seemed like I would be putting more bending into the link than pure tension/compression. Maybe I am incorrectly envisioning how that is going to move and the motion will get better moving away from full droop while sitting on jack stands.

 

[NMWildtrak]

Yours is mounted just like mine. I've gone more than full send on them many times and they are still doing a great job for me.

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