Rear spring hat bracing

[BigRAWesty]

Holy sh1t!!!! Looks sweat!!!

X2. They don't look that heavy in the pics..

[Parksy]

Got the passenger side in this afternoon. Wasn't quite that awesome an experience I was after, took a little longer than I expected, but it looks solid. Will try and fit the drivers side tomorrow followed by pictures.

[Parksy]

Drivers side installed. Will post up pics soon. Some tips for the job, get ahold of a 12mm and a 17mm ratchet spanner. Will need vice grips to remove the captive bolts that hold the brake lines to the spring hats. The u bolts are a pain to torque down but a ratcheting spanner should make this a little easier. I spent an hour on them but I only had a regular open ended spanner. There are 6 bolts that hold the brace to the spring hat and on the drivers side, the middle ones will need trimming, otherwise they will extend 5-8mm past the brace and push the brake lines up. Otherwise not too bad to install.

[Parksy]

Thick slab of steel firmly bolted to the top of the spring hat


Passenger side


The brake lines appear to be touching the brace, but there is sufficient clearance and they don't budge/vibrate


You can see in some of the pictures there is red silicone on top of the spring. I only used this to try and hold the spacer that comes with the kit in place while the springs get installed. Tried double sides tape, but it just wouldn't stick to the spacer, so lots of silicone, enough to cause a suction effect, and it stayed in place nicely.
Forgot to mention that the exhaust caused slight issues when installing the passenger side, I just needed to man handle the brace into place.

[megatexture]

Do they recommend jacking the body to relax the mounts before tightening the 3 middle adjustable bolts?

[Parksy]

Do they recommend jacking the body to relax the mounts before tightening the 3 middle adjustable bolts?

I printed off the instructions and there was no mention of doing this. Everything is installed loosely, then everything is done up bar the tensioning bolt or those 3 you mentioned. The tensioning bolt is torqued just enough to put some preload on the spring hat, then the 3 get torqued to hold it in place.