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This mod applies to everyone who owns, plan to buy or installing the lift spindles(ANY BRAND LIFT SPINDLES) with stock LCAs.  Removing caliper stop will help clear the room for brake caliper on near full-full lock turn on either direction.

Tools I used for the job, you can come up with something else if you do not have available, may be easier/harder depending on the use of tools.

It only took me about 5 minute per side to do the job with air tools.  This may take longer for some as much as 30 minutes.

1. Cutout Wheel
2. Pry Bar
3. Dead blow hammer
3. Jack
4. Jackstand
5. 19mm impact gun (OR tire iron if the tool is unavailable to you)
6. Rubberized paint
7. IMPORTANT! EYE PROTECTION GOGGLES.  You only have 1 set of eyes, don’t risk losing them!!!

Starting at one side(either driver or passenger’s side).

Those using tire iron, loosen the lug nut JUST enough to be able loosen more once on jackstand.

Jack up your truck safely from the side but bit away from the fender so you’ll have room to put jack under the frame(before it curves up toward to engine).

Put jack stand underneath, once reach desired height, be sure sit on the ground level properly and lower the jack slowly to ensure safety and into jack stand mount.

Remove lug nuts, tire

Now you can see, I mounted jackstand under the LCA safely but I do not have the picture of how I mount it properly BUT it will not roll off or damage balljoint. The method above will give you clearance under LCA in case you need room for removing brake stop.
This is caliper stop that needs to be removed:

I already started on the cut with the picture above, and the line you see is stainless steel brake line.

Caliper Stop is held on by rivets, as you can see there are 2.  My method of removing them is to cut from above to downward which you can see the picture of where I started with cutout wheel.

When cutting the rivets, BE CAREFUL if the cutout wheel slips, you do not want to hurt yourself or touching brake line, take extra precaution and TAKE YOUR TIME! AS WELL WEARING YOUR EYE GOOGLE PROTECTION!!!!

Its OK to cut the caliper stop its thick that you won’t cut through BUT you want to be able go as bit deeper to ensure full cut of rivet.

This is one completely removed and started on the second one.

Now with both removed, you want to grind the surface of where rivets were to a point where you can see light circle line(Left of the hole on thecaliper stop)


Now, I take my pry bar and hit it down to loosen the caliper stop toward left as picture shown

NOW you can see more clearly of the circle lines which mean its coming off slowly

That’s where I’ll use my dead blow hammer and hit it to loosen it, be careful and watch your fingers when doing so
NOW, this is what it should looks like after removing caliper stop completely

Congratulation and hope you didn’t lose your eye/s or finger/s over this

Now, you can leave this in since its stuck on pretty well and STILL CLEAR THE BRAKE CALIPER, be sure to paint with rubberized or rust-free paint and clean them out real well before doing so. And personally, I would say to removed them.

You can hit them out with dead blow hammer, it would be also easy to use tap punch to do it much quicker.


Now, you can reinstall tire, hand tighten lug nuts as much you can.

Once on ground, be sure to tighten them evenly 5 star style, and continue to do on another side.