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oooooooh ooooooooooooooohh!!! breaking news!!!  my baby is low!!! With Adam's help, we got the bat susp kit installed yesterday. ONLY took like ummm 5 HOURS to do each side on the front. But on the bright side, the rear only took about 30-40 mins per side.  We lost an hour and a half on the front pass side because the bolt on the strut was cross threaded on we couldn't get the pos off for nothing. Ended up replacing the lower ball joints w/ some new greasable ones along w/ the swaybar end links as one was completely shot. Thank god for the impact wrench and the air chisel. LOL They're a must to avoid busted knuckles, although my hands are huge, swolen and stiff from drilling out the rivets on the stock ball joints and air chiseling them out. But it's done and already it's a world of diff to drive.  It was much needed as the stock struts were completely shot. I could just push the rod all the way in w/ no resistance and it slooooooooooly would rebound back up. The new ones... I could barely push it down 3 inch before it would shoot back up. The papers that came w/ the kit explain that the contour stock is around 15" from the center of the wheel to the fender, which mine was. And that after the kit install it'll go down to between 12.5" to 13.5" from wheel center to fender. Oohh, can't wait for it to completely settle.  Diff was 1/2" just putting everything on and more settling to come. pics to come after everything settles in.
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Too Cool! Can't wait to see pics! I've decided that's the suspension I'm going with when the time (money) comes. Congrats!
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very misleading title...but cograts...
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There was labor and there is now pain... how is that misleading...
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thats cool I am thinking about getting the bilstiens with eibachs.
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Originally posted by GS474:
stock hp is never enough
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The key is the impact wrench, and not tearing the cv boot... 
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I have already lowered the front of a coog once and the key there was a scissor jack. you really have to have been there to understand it but rob,rich, and roger know what I am talking about. to bad the coog owner himself wasnt smart enough to figure that out
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Originally posted by GS474:
stock hp is never enough
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Originally posted by Big Papa:
I have already lowered the front of a coog once and the key there was a scissor jack. you really have to have been there to understand it but rob,rich, and roger know what I am talking about. to bad the coog owner himself wasnt smart enough to figure that out
ROFL!  All hail the mighty scissor jack!
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no,that wasn't the problem. everything else just gets in the way...
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Originally posted by Big Papa:
I have already lowered the front of a coog once and the key there was a scissor jack. you really have to have been there to understand it but rob,rich, and roger know what I am talking about. to bad the coog owner himself wasnt smart enough to figure that out
I <3 cougar owners! 
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