Well they are in, took about 3 hours (about 40 min of that was explaining to the wife why we needed these and no it’s not stupid). Dropped the control arms, holly eff those springs are long. Last springs I changed out was on my 2010 mk5 jetta, I has to swing the Alltracks control arm so it was almost touching the ground to work the spring free. Took about 10 min each spring to work the bag into it, used the zip tie squish method shown by Moonwalker, but it took another 45 min to get the springs back in stalled. I did run into an issue with my H&R RSB and the moog end links, the threaded portion of the moogs seem to be a good ¼ 3/8 way to long and the threads were hitting the springs on both sides but passengers side was the worse, I couldn’t swing the bar out of the way as it was hitting the drivers side axle (first one that was completed after some wiggling). I tried compressing the driver’s side spring but didn’t get enough room so I eventually removed both end links to be reinstalled later today. Once that was done it didn’t take much to get the swing arm into place did take about 5-7” of compression before the shock bolt holes lined up, shock first then the knuckle, a little bit of persuading with a screw driver to line up the holes. I eventually torqued knuckle and shock bolts to 100 ft lb, and I did reuse hardware.
I did route the air lines down and then back up and through the rear rails past my westfailia hitch and by the bumper cover, right now I have the slack of the lines zip tied to the hitch and about 10lbs in the bags. Not sure if I’ll use the T or if I’ll have two fill ports.
I’ll mount the valve and reinstall the end links after work, so far with 10lbs there’s about 3” between top of the tire and the plastic cladding, def a little higher. I hope I sat the bottom of the springs properly in the control arm, it was very awkward to seat it then rotate it to the proper position then not have it pop back out as you wiggle the top into the chassis perch.
