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Picture 1, (RICK0395)
Make sure you park on a level surface, chock 
the front wheels and jack up the rear of the 
truck by the rear axle housing.  

Picture 2, (RICK0394)
Lift the back of the truck by the rear axle 
housing and put jack stands under the frame.  
Make sure you use a good set of strong jack 
stands.

Picture 3, (RICK0393)
Remove the rear wheels.  Lower the rear axle 
housing so the jack stands are supporting the 
truck, but keep the floor jack under the rear 
axle and slightly keep weight on the jack.

Picture 4, (RICK0396)
Remove the four nuts on the bottom of the U 
bolts and remove the clamp plate.  I shot a 
little WD40 on them beforehand to make the 
removal of the nuts a bit easier.  If you 
have a lot of dirt on them, you may consider 
cleaning them off with a wire brush.

Picture 5, (RICK0398)
Using the floor jack, raise the axle about 4 
inches above the leaf spring.

Picture 6, (RICK0399)
Use a C-clamp to hold the leaf spring together.  
This keeps the bottom blade from separating.

Picture 7, (RICK0400)
Remove the nut from the bottom of the leaf 
spring locating bolt, (it has a round head and 
you may need to grip it with pliers to remove 
the nut), and remove this bolt.

Picture 8, (RICK0404)
Locate the new locating bolt and spacer in the 
kit and install them in the leaf spring.  Now 
you realize why they suggest raising the axle 
4 inches…(so you can get this in).

Picture 9, (RICK0401)
I cut all but about ½ inch off the bottom of 
the locating bolt, (AFTER I put the nut on), 
so that it would not stick down quite so far.  
A hacksaw went right through it.  Once you 
install this bolt, you can remove the C-clamp.

Picture 10, (RICK0403)
Assemble the Axle Anchor Bracket per the instructions.  
Make sure you put a dab of grease on the cup washer 
where it contacts the axle bracket so that you don’t 
have an annoying squeak later.  Do it now as you 
will have a load on this later and will not be able 
to grease it unless you disassemble.

Picture 11, (RICK0406)
Position the Assembled Axle Bracket on top of the 
leaf spring with the vertical side facing the rear 
of the truck.

Picture 12, (RICK0405)
The hole in the Bracket must be located over 
the raised head and spacer of the leaf spring 
center bolt.

Picture 13, (RICK0406)
SLOWLY lower the axle, using the jack, onto the 
leaf spring.  The Axle Locating Hole MUST now 
fit over the new locating bolt as in the picture.  
Then replace the clamp plate and the four nuts on 
the U bolts that hold the axle in place.

Picture 14, (RICK0408)
Replace the clamp plate and the four nuts on the 
U bolts that hold the axle in place.  Torque them 
per specs.

Picture 15, (RICK0409)
This is how it now looks with the Axle Anchor 
Bracket in place and the axle and springs back together.

Picture 16, (RICK0413)
Assemble the Eye Bracket Assembly to the rear 
of the leaf spring.  Note the larger bolt and 
spacer are at the rear of the Bracket Assembly.
  ( My dual exhausts were nearly in the way).

Picture 17, (RICK0414)
Attach the Eye Bracket Hook under and around 
the leaf spring eye as shown.  It has no 
trouble staying in place.

Picture 18, (RICK0415)
With the Eye Bracket in place, screw two nuts 
onto the threaded rod of the Tension Spring 
about to the center.  Then put the threaded 
end through the Eye Bracket Assembly through 
the hole in the Eye Bracket Assembly and put 
two nuts on the end and run them down about 
½ inch and snug them together so they can act 
as jam nuts.  Do NOT snug the two in the center 
of the threaded rod together at this point.

Picture 19, (RICK0416)
Connect the tension spring to the Anchor Bracket, 
(if it does not reach, just unscrew the spring 
off the threaded rod).  Note, that the nut on 
the bolt from the Anchor Bracket should be run 
all the way down onto the shoulder of the Cap 
Screw so that max threads go into the spring.  

Picture 20, (RICK0417)
The spring is run all the way down to the jam 
nut of the Anchor Bracket, and the jam nut is 
tightened against the spring.  Now put a wrench 
on the jam nuts on the end of the threaded rod, 
(sorry, no pic of this), that are in the Eye 
Bracket Assembly.  Use a 10mm Allen socket and 
turn the cap screw so that the tension spring 
turns, allowing the threaded rod to  screw onto 
the tension spring.  

Picture 21, (RICK0418)
Continue to do this until the gap between the 
coils open to NO MORE than 1mm,  (about the 
width of a dime, it should JUST pass between 
the coils).  Do NOT exceed this width.

Picture 22, (RICK0419)
Once the Tension Spring has been properly loaded, 
run the two nuts from the Threaded Rod down to 
the Spring and jam them to lock them against the 
now adjusted Tension Spring.  Now do the other 
side exactly the same way and you are all done.  
You will notice a tremendous difference whether 
your truck is empty or loaded.