New Master Cylinder and Prop Valve, Rear brake line

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New master and prop valve, Right Stuff goodies.

Rear brake line from front to back complete.

Installing 2nd gen Coil springs (cont)

Drivers side finished.

Installing 2nd gen Coil springs (cont)

Passenger side, finished

Installing 2nd gen Coil springs (cont)

Where the end of this pry bar is is where some "Persuasion" has to be done. We had to lift up on the edge of the coil spring with the pry bar (as shown) and get the end of the coil over the lip so it would sit in the lower control arm spring pocket. As mentioned it takes persuasion. Whereas getting the spring to fall into the pocket required loosening the spring compressor and then installing the spindle, you might have to loosen or tighten the coil spring compressor up for this operation enough to get it over this lip. Not an easy task. BE CAREFUL.

Installing 2nd gen Coil springs (cont)

Crank down and compress the spring. You should compress it until you can fit the spring into the pocket of the lower control arm. This does take a little force. We had the spindle attached to the lower control arm, pushed the spring forward into the pocket, then attached the spindle to the upper control arm ball joint.

Installing 2nd gen Coil springs (cont)

This is how it looks from the underside. Try to hook the hooks as close to the end of the threaded shaft fairly close to the end of the shaft with only a small amount thread coming through. This allows a lot of compression to be made.

Installing 2nd gen Coil springs

Using the Autozone kit, kit#27035 you can install the coil springs just like the tool that GM used to do this with. The long shaft goes through the opening in the top of spring pocket. This shaft is just large enough to sit in this hole. We used a washer in between the frame and bolt head.
Here is the link and a picture to the kit.
http://www.autozone.com/autozone/accessories/OEM-Coil-spring-compressor/_/N-264t?counter=0&filterByKeyWord=coil+spring+compressor&fromString=search&itemIdentifier=555573_0_0_