Done!

toddincharlotte said:

Hey Guys, thanks for the kind words. This is a BDS kit. Came with new coils all around and new rear shocks. I also bought a new pair of front shocks as they were pretty worn at 140k miles. The whole process took me around 12 hours. I had bought new front shocks and had the coils loaded prior to the install but I had to take them back up the day of the install as the notches didn't line up. That took 2 hours of the 12. Otherwise things went pretty smooth. Ball joints came apart with a few solid taps on the knuckle. Rears were a piece of cake.

We had Tire County do an alignment and install the Cooper Discoverer AT3 (245/70/16). Also got a pair of 4" nerf bars to install. We'll drive it for 6 months and see how it settles. I'll need to get in there at that point to do brakes and may do uppers at the same time as those ball joints were pretty worn. Also may be looking at rear shocks as I'm expecting potential issues with the oil charged rears that come with the BDS kit. All in all not a terribly tough install, just took a little more time than I expected it to. Probably the most time consuming Christmas present I've ever put together. I'd much rather do a top end and sticker kit on a used motocrosser

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tommudd said:

Yes the rear shocks BDS supplies are not the greatest at all, I'd be looking at replacing very soon since ride will be better with gas charged.
I wouldn't wait 6 months for next alignment, you want to do a second one in 2-3000 at most as it will settle some esp the BDS. Plus if the UBJs are already pretty worn you'll need those real soon, stock upper arms have been known to let go at very inopportune times, time to upgrade to JBAs

10 hours? :shrug:

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toddincharlotte said:

Thanks Tom. I will definitely look into doing the alignment next month after she's up a couple thousand on it. Is there an aftermarket control arm that works better with these kits? The new front shocks seemed really tight in there.

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