Rough Country 294.20 - Manual (Page 4)

17. Insert factory hardware into the stock cross member and tighten with a 18mm socket and wrench. See Photo 13.
18. Place the strut in a strut compress and apply pressure on the coil spring. Place a alignment mark on the strut top and
one end of the lower bar pin, this will be used for later reference. Using a 18mm wrench remove the strut cap nut.
Slowly let pressure off the coil spring and disassemble strut. See Photo 14.
19. Place the supplied preload spacer between the lower coil seat and the plastic isolator ring as shown in Photo 15.
20. Place strut assembly back in spring compress, turn the alignment marks that you made earlier 180 degrees apart. This
will turn the bar pin in the correct location when the strut spacer is installed.
21. Using the supplied 10mm studs place each stud into the smaller sized holes in the strut spacer facing upward. Use the
supplied sleeve to slide over each stud to act as a spacer allowing you to pull the stud through the hole with the 10mm
nut and a 17mm wrench, locking the stud into place. Remove sleeve and repeat on the other five studs. See Photo 16.
22. Place the strut spacer on top of the stud and tighten using factory hardware and a 18mm wrench. See Photo 17.
27. Install the strut assembly in the factory mount with the supplied 10mm nuts/washers &lock-washers on the upper mount.
Tighten using a 17mm wrench. Note: Locking washer must be installed between nut and regular washer on
studs. See Photo 18.
Photo 18 Photo 17
Photo 16 Photo 15
Photo 14 Photo 13