Well the lift is installed, as well as most of the stuff I ordered (prothane bushings). I love the way it drives, it feels like a truck now
, getting used to having steering that does not float now.
As for the job itself, none of it I would say is hard. It was a bit difficult not having an extra hand with any of it, not to mention fighting certain components along the way. The rear went pretty easy, my only complaint with that was fighting the sway bar end links. Passenger side required some sawzall action, driver side sawzall and die grinder (cut the shank for the ball rather than the bolt). Putting the springs and spacers in was easy as well as the new shocks. Only compressed the springs about an inch or so to get them to slide in. Took my 4 hours total with an hour of grinding.
The front was how do you say time consuming. The lower ball joint on the passenger side literally kicked my ass around and me wreak of failure. Spent 4 hours off an on trying to get it to go with no luck. Put heat to it, beat it everything I could think of. I went and did other things like the upper ball joint, strut etc then would come back. After failing to get it to budge I sprayed everything with some more PB blaster before putting my tools away. Being exhausted after 10 hours of work on Sunday, I cleaned up and went to eat and go to bed. The next morning I came out and decided to give another try, first attempt nothing. After some frustration I cam back with the 4 lbs sledge and hit the top of the BJ press. The damn LBJ popped right out. Feeling excited I was able to put the passenger side back together fairly quick, had the strut back in place, lower strut mount, new tie rod end, UBJ, LBJ, wheel hub and the new sway bar endlink (everything but the UCA). I had about an hour to finish tearing the driver side apart before having to get ready for work (needed a ride as the truck was on jack stands). Total time on Monday 5 hours.
Now comes Tuesday, I wake up at 6:30, being difficult as I get off at midnight and am usually up until 2 am. I walk the dog and get ready to go tear back into the project. By 8 I had the UBJ, and LBJ pressed out and the new ones in. Pulled the strut to swap out with the Bilstein HD and the lift spacer, now comes the F-you moment of the day. The top mounting bolt for the strut was so corroded that the allen wrench instantly rounded out the hole in the top of the OEM strut, figured ok lets go with the vice grips. Now the metal threads for the mount are starting to just fall off they were corroded so bad. Try for the metal piston, just spins. At this point I am at a cross roads, do I cut the nut, the piston, try and take it to a shop. After some debate and finishing up swapping the UCA's I come up with a plan. I put some more tension on the spring compressors to get the spring away from the top mount so it has no pressure behind it. I begin cutting straight down the strut rod with a sawzall, while the spring is compressed (
This is a do not try this at home kids warning[/B). This is the most terrifying and dangerous backyard mechanic work I have ever had to do. I get the cut fairly straight and get to the nut, get about half way through the nut and then the top mount washer is next. I cut all the way down to the center nut washer and through, 4 dewalt blades later and 35 minutes the nut just falls off. I get the strut back together and installed as well as the new tie rod end, and go in to get a wrench and see the 1/2 upper spacer sitting on the tool box 
. Get that put in and everything back together.
So I start doing final torque checks on the driver side around 10:30, wheel and spacer installed around 11:15. Go to passenger side and forget to set the torque wrench back to 35 ft/lbs for the pinch bolt, about 3 turns in POW. The bolt shears and I can only think WTF then realize my mistake. Find the old bolt and nut in my scrap pile and get that back in. I finish at about 12:15, clean up and call Mr. Tire to let them know Im bringing it in for an alignment. On my way pver I keep hearing a crunching sound, turns out the inner fender sheet metal is rubbing against the UCA . So I drop it off and go to lunch with my Fiancee. Guy calls me and explains the camber/toe issue with the lift I tell him to get the toe straight and the camber should be ok as I can rotate the tires more frequently. He calls me back an hour later ( we were on our way back) and explains that they got it to well within specs and still had about 3/4" of threads in the inner tie rod. I had just enough time after heading back home and changing to cut some of the sheet metal out with the sawzall.
SO far I'm happy with it.
I also hacked off the hemorrhoid after all these years. Still need to weld a tip on.
trucks coming along well 
