Air ride sensor mod made easy!

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Bullies in the Garage Present:
Air ride sensor modification made easy!

So your thinking of buying 37's for your H2 but you are worried about breaking your control arm air ride sensor. Well, the Bullies are here to show you how to make it easy and affordable.

Cost of this project: 75 cents
Tools needed:
Drill,
5/16 drill bit,
Wire Cutters,
Cresent Wrench,
Monkey Wrench,
(and my personal fav...)
Henckels Brand Steak Knife

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The first thing you need to do is purchase two Carrage Bolts 5/16 x 1 1/4
as well as two locking nuts.

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The next thing to do is to cut off the end of that pin on the control arm using a steak knife or anything else you can use to make a clean cut. (The steak knife was fast and easy. Wire cutters were a bitch)

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Now it should look like this...

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Now pull the arm apart like this...

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Next, cut off the remaining piece of the pin using wire cutters.

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Now it should look like this. Your bolt will be too big for this hole, so get your drill ready...

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Carefully drill the hole to make way for the bolt. This make take a couple of tries as the rubber likes to stick to the bit.

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Now that your hole is drilled, (haha) next put the Carriage bolt through the hole you drilled as seen below. We used this bolt because of the smooth broad surface to further reduce the chance of the tire catching it during rigorous off-road conditions.

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Next run the bolt through the vertical arm as well. It should look like the picture below.

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Using the a crescent wrench attach and tighten the locking nut to the bolt. We used a small monkey wrench to hold the bolt in place during tightening.

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Almost done... It should look like this...
Make sure to repeat steps for the other side.

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Test your air ride to ensure proper operation.

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If you mess up or break the arm, your pretty much screwed so good luck!

Work was performed by H2 Bully and assisted by myself. Pictures were taken by me.

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Don't forget to De-Bling!

[drmiles]

Great write up,

Note you will only have trouble with the air sensor, if you put wider than 12.5 on stock rims. i.e. 37 x 13.5 x 17 Toyo MT's

Second if you do break the sensor you can manually move each arm into the same position and the air bags will refill. So you can get home on a broken sensor connector rod.

Glad to see everyone going with the bigger tires.

[hummer74]

yes, very good write up. much better than my ghetto ms paint job. i do need to flip my panhead and bolt like you did, after speaking with doc miles.
so when are you getting the tires? and dont forget to post pics of the tires on your rig!

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Originally Posted by hummer74

yes, very good write up. much better than my ghetto ms paint job. i do need to flip my panhead and bolt like you did, after speaking with doc miles.
so when are you getting the tires? and dont forget to post pics of the tires on your rig!

Thanks, I hope to get the tires in a couple weeks

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Originally Posted by H2 BULLY

Thanks, I hope to get the tires in a couple weeks

riiiiiiightttttt.....