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The spring tension has no effect on the lower mounting bar. Do you have a bench vise you could clamp the bar into and try rotating it by pulling on the top shock mount to spin the bar?

 

A little heads-up on your ABS wires. When I put the new Superlift arms on mine, the ABS wires were pulled a little too tight for my liking. I popped out the connectors at the frame and flipped them to the bottom of their mounts and it gave the wires more slack. 
 

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Appreciate everyone's help and suggestions.  I am going to man up on this one and admit my stupidity.  I had the lower control arms on the wrong side and obviously upside down.  🤦‍♂️   I should have disassembled and then assembled 1 side at a time.  Instead I disassembled both side ones night, cleaned up, and then reassembled the next night.   It's amazing how closely everything still lines up with the arms on the wrong side.  Close enough that I was able to get one side loosely bolted up.  As soon as I went to put the knuckle on and saw that the hole for the lower ball joint to fit into was tapered the wrong direction it hit me what I had done.  Once I swapped the LCA's the passenger side bolted right up imagine that.  On the driver side I did have to compress the spring again and rotate it 180deg.  Once I did that the angle of the shock and mounting ears all lined up as well.  

 

Have not got the new tires mounted and alignment yet (later this week), but the improvement was definitely noticeable over the worn OE shocks.  I did end up getting rid of the 1/2" Rough Country strut spacer and then adjusted the Eibach's up all the way to the 2.5" setting.  No rubbing on the Superlift UCA like I had with the OE one with the same tires.  Did not need the wheel spacers.  

 

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Good to hear you got it figured out. Did you grease the upper ball joints before you put the caps on? I don’t believe mine were greased from the factory so I greased them when I installed them. 

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