What did you do with your GMT400 today...or yesterday....

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Upper control arms installed. Had to cut the ball joint off on the passenger side, as the castle nut stripped on me.

 

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Rear shocks installed…

 

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So I’m pretty sure that Shock Surplus provided me the incorrect front shocks for the 2014 4Runner.



You can see the difference in ride height:

Before:


After:

 

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So I’m pretty sure that Shock Surplus provided me the incorrect front shocks for the 2014 4Runner.

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You can see the difference in ride height:

Before:
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After:
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This is now installer error. I woke up thinking about this. Checked a different store and they sell the same shock for the 4Runner. I then went out and retrieved the old shocks from the trash before they got hauled away in the am. Checked the coil spring platform and compared it to the one on the new one and I’ve got them upside down on the new ones. When installed properly, the spring platform slides over the height setting clip. Installed wrong, the spring platform sits on top of the height setting clip. The total difference in height is about 2”.

I’ll have to pull the shocks to correct this. I don’t have to remove the lower control arms, but need to drop them. Probably about 3 hours of work, maybe less with learning curve.

 

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So I’m pretty sure that Shock Surplus provided me the incorrect front shocks for the 2014 4Runner.

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You can see the difference in ride height:

Before:
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After:
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Got it corrected. Took me two hours.
Now it just needs an alignment.

 

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