So excited to finally get the IRS installed and torqued down! The toe adjuster sleeves came in with the IRS sleeves – so it’s great to see these parts so I could get the rear suspension completed!
Just to note, if you have the IRS rear sway bar option, this is the time to remember to add it to your configuration – otherwise you’ll be removing, and re-doing your toe-arm bolts!
Now that the center section was installed, all the extra parts could be adjoined and connected to the spindles. We already did the upper control arms back in March.
First step was to attach the lower control arm (LCA), the tabs were tight – but a nice mallet helped coax them into place. Note that it’s hard to wiggle the LCA into place when the sway-bar is installed – not impossible, but it makes for less movement.
The toe-control arm is next – again simple coaxing into the tabs.
Once those are in place, next are the half-axles!
So all the main parts are connected to the frame, now it’s time to setup the spindle and shocks! The last part was to align and tighten up the sway bar ends, it’s a rather tight fit but all tidied up now!
Overall impression was that none of this was ‘hard’ but you have to be creative with angles and use the floor jack to relieve some suspension tension a bit to get things aligned. As you can see, rear brakes are next!
