plac

you can do it with one hand when everything is loosened properly. only do one rear side at a time, dont try to pull both sides down at once. i also liked to undo my rear abs harness from one of its clips on each side for extra safety too. if you are really tight and the parking brake cable is holding up the rear from dropping you can undo the single 10mm nut into the floor to loosen that parking brake. and put a jack under one side and jack up. you'd be surprised how much the other side drops.

indyjeep

I am not sure if the unlimited is a different setup that makes it harder...but there is no way these could "slide' in. I ended up removing the ebrake holder and disconnecting the sway bar. The I used a friends pry bar to pop the coils in. This was not fun lol.

But, I dont want to disparage the product! I was very impressed with the quality and the outcome is so worth it...the jeep on the 33's with the leveling kit looks exactly how I hoped. I think if i just had a coil compressor this would have been a breeze!

Thanks for all the suggestions and help...I was freaking out a bit and panicking. Its my daily driver....it was jacked up with no rear coils halfway in and halfway out of the garage and its getting cold lol.

mkjeep

All anyone has to do is follow the steps in the Tera 2.5 BB install.
Rear springs just fall out if you disconnect what your supposed too. If you try to shortcut by not disconnecting all parts needed, it usually takes you longer than if you'd did it right in the first place.

stratman2

glad it worked out.... but if you had to pry the shocks in and out, something was wrong. they should have practically fallen out. loosening the trackbar would have made things a whole lot easier.

wazooz2424

Unlimited is same as 2dr. I've had 2 2drs and an unlimited and have done both spacer and coil lifts on all 3. They do slide right in. Where were your jack stands positioned?

TeraFlex

Good to hear you got the kit installed. Did you take before/after pics?

randyd

Sorry to hear you having sud a time with this install.
I have installed two different Tf lift kits. Both were a follow the instructions sort of thing. Might just want to reread everything and understand the differnet parts. I bet there is some small thing you are overlooking. I know how easy it is to do that.
Also, one thing no one mentions is that little wire going to the brakes. Make sure you don't streach that!. But really your springs with fall into place. Had to be a tad more forefull in the fron on mine, but no big deal.. Keep trying.

plac

i mentioned that..

randyd

Sorry

CerOf

If you only undo the shocks and sway bar, it is QUITE difficult to get the springs back in with the spacer. They do fall out easy enough, but going in with the spacers is TOUGH.

I had my wife stand on the lug nuts and bounce up and down to get the axle to drop just a hair more and I was able to slip the spring in.

Otherwise, undoing other things would have been necessary. Spring compressors don't work well on the rear. I used them on the front to make things easy. I own a pair and have an air ratchet so they were easy to use.