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Creative jacking

To get the passenger's side U-bolts in (one of them, anyway) I had to raise the axle. But now, I was lifting the combined weight of the axle and the spring and compressing the spring slightly. Too much to do by hand. But the axle was too low to get my jack underneath. So, I raised the jack high enough to go over the axle and then used a ratchet strap to pull up the axle. I brought it up just enough to get the U-bolt in. Once I had the last U-bolt in place, I tightened all the U-bolt nuts on both springs and removed the jack. You can see how far up the pinion yoke is pointing. That's from a combination of the shims and the severe droop from both Teraflex Revolvers being completely extended.

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