Cant get lower control arm back up to bolt on to Ball joint

Hey everyone, I'm stuck. I'm putting on my lift and I'm at the step of jacking up the control arm back to bolt onto the ball joint assembly. I have removed the sway bar out of the way and now I can only get it up about 2 inches shy to bolt before it just starts lifting the truck instead. What can I do? Thanks!

 

Loosen the lca cam bolt.

 

^^^ that, and if that doesn't relieve enough binding then loosen the upper control arm bolt as well to allow the knuckle to drop down onto the LCA ball joint bracket.

 

I also used a ratchet strap hooked up to the UCA. It worked perfectly. As seen in this video:

https://youtu.be/KyloaYxFgU8

 

Ah I see how that could work thanks! I didn't even think about pulling the upper down

 

I ran into something similar and had about a two hour headache before I realized the axle shaft had pulled out of the differential about 1/4”. Wiggled the axle shaft back and forth until the splines realigned and the control arms literally fell into place.

 

I will check that out thanks!

 

I had a similar problem, but I put the strut perch on upside down. One side went together just fine and then I was saved by this forum after wondering wtf was happening with the other.

 

The ratchet strap trick worked for me…make sure your CV joint hasn’t pulled out either. Another member here had that problem.

 

Thanks! You all have been very helpful. First thing tomorrow I'm going to give these ideas a go. My confidence level is already increased 10 fold!

 

I did this when I resprung my front end. At least I only did it once!

 

Glad to know I’m not the only one! I wonder how @Hotdog is doing?

 

The Westcott lift instructions have you use a pry bar to pull down the UCA leveraging against one of the coils of the spring. Worked like a charm last weekend to get things lined up for me

 

Success! Well, mostly. Using the ratchet strap to pull the upper control arm down I was able to line everything up and bolt back together. Only catch is I think I may have stripped out a couple bolt holes for my sway bar brackets when putting the sway bar spacers in. They looked like they where straight while laying upside down . Not too big of a deal to correct that though. But the worst part is done thanks for the tips!

 

I’m having the same problem! Going to try the strap tomorrow and hopefully it works!!!