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Old 02-04-2017, 07:35 PM   #1
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Watched the videos, looked at the pictures, read the blogs. Crawled under the Bounder this afternoon just to get a look see. Loosened the nut on the front sway, passenger side, and the bolt would not come out unless ratcheted out. Before I really had a chance to get into it, it started raining and I'm outside. Put it back and re-torqued. My question is should there be stress on that bolt? Some were saying to use a floor jack to help re-align the holes, Do I need to back the nuts off both side before removing the bolts?
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There would be stress on the sway bar, if the MH isn't level. Any lean right or left will stress it slightly.

You could use a jack under the chassis rail to lift, which ever side is lower, or if you have levelers, use them.

I would suggest a bottle jack, under the front spring mount. It shouldn't need much lifting.
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If your coach is setting perfectly level, there won't be any stress on the bolts In my driveway that was how it worked. If the front axle isn't parallel with the rear axle where you have it parked, then there will be some stress and putting a bottle jack under the low end will make the bolts come out easily.

You will also most likely need to extend the links to get them to move through the full range of motion. I extended my front ones 3 1/2", would do them 4" if I were doing it over. The rear ones were still worked fine at 10" but will probably extend them 2" this summer.
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Old 02-05-2017, 08:00 AM   #4
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There would be stress on the sway bar, if the MH isn't level. Any lean right or left will stress it slightly.

You could use a jack under the chassis rail to lift, which ever side is lower, or if you have levelers, use them.

I would suggest a bottle jack, under the front spring mount. It shouldn't need much lifting.
Tried the levelers but when down the springs line up with the bolt hole and will not allow full extraction.
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If your coach is setting perfectly level, there won't be any stress on the bolts In my driveway that was how it worked. If the front axle isn't parallel with the rear axle where you have it parked, then there will be some stress and putting a bottle jack under the low end will make the bolts come out easily.

You will also most likely need to extend the links to get them to move through the full range of motion. I extended my front ones 3 1/2", would do them 4" if I were doing it over. The rear ones were still worked fine at 10" but will probably extend them 2" this summer.
First time I've seen mention of "extending the links". Maybe the rain was a good thing.
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That's because most folks don't extend the links.

Some mention the bar hitting the springs when up on the levelers but that is when the suspension is unloaded, not a condition found while driving unless your getting some air over a BIG bump.

Lengthening the links negates some of the effect of the fix, but do what makes you feel comfortable.

John McKinney or McKinnly, the prophessed invented of the CHF explaines this.
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