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Today I installed the 4 upper arms. I did put the number 4 tabs in to start off with (2 are what they come with) being many have used 4-7. I already have the trailing arms installed and being the factory toe arms are adjustable I don't think I will add those. Do one side at a time. Only things I unhooked were the brake cable on the body, the lower shock bolt and the sway bar links. I did the sway bar so I could rotate it for more room if I needed to so the links for the sway bar you do need to do both sides from the start. I placed a jack under the cradle by the exhaust. Take out both cradle bolts on the side you are working on then lower the jack. I do have cradle lockouts installed so the ones on the other side may have not let it drop as far. The front upper bolt was close to coming out but I did have to use a pry bar to lower the front maybe an inch to get the bolt out. Could also be the Chargers and Challengers are different in that area. Once the arms are swapped out jack it up and install the cradle bolts. Move to the other side and do the same thing. Also by doing a side at a time you can look to other side if you are not sure which way the bolts go. I had to jack up each arm to get the shock bolt and sway bar bolts back in
I was working pretty slow and it took around 3 hours. If you were to install the trailing arms and toe arms add another hour to 90 minutes. You could also drop some time if you had someone helping but I wanted to see how hard it would be doing it myself
This is the video I followed. (he did put the bolt on backwards on the center bar on the outside. The nut should be on the back not the front like the front arm)
Speedy also has a video that may help
![20220528_114546.jpg](/data/attachments/72/72039-0c8e5033c794ca5bd76fab424a7c842c.jpg)
I was working pretty slow and it took around 3 hours. If you were to install the trailing arms and toe arms add another hour to 90 minutes. You could also drop some time if you had someone helping but I wanted to see how hard it would be doing it myself
This is the video I followed. (he did put the bolt on backwards on the center bar on the outside. The nut should be on the back not the front like the front arm)
Speedy also has a video that may help
![20220528_122710.jpg](/data/attachments/72/72036-eb739e1e8f57ad2b774c063225c7c69a.jpg)
![20220528_123218.jpg](/data/attachments/72/72037-041f8433086b75c69a38dc28d7e75d47.jpg)
![20220528_124026.jpg](/data/attachments/72/72038-489e77330036ebaf059db7ef1d520c09.jpg)
![20220528_114546.jpg](/data/attachments/72/72039-0c8e5033c794ca5bd76fab424a7c842c.jpg)
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