Thanks for all the comments and additional wisdom and experience. I had decided to make this post after the struggle with doing the driver's side. After all, helping other RVers by sharing information and experience is what this forum is all about. All the pictures were of the passenger side, which was somewhat easier after the things I had learned on the other side.
Have to say that this job was at the limits of this 70yo body and I won't be doing it myself if there is a next time (hopefully many years from now). I do plan to replace the front brake pads in a couple of months, so if anyone has any helpful hints for that job they would be appreciated.
One other observation that I didn't include in the original post. I used my 6 ton bottle jack under the axle to lift the driver's side wheels off the pavement. I noticed that the outer dual came off the ground before the inner, for the obvious reason that the jack was tilting the axle. I have 4 corner weights and each rear corner is only about 4,500 lbs, well under the jack rating. It seemed overly difficult to pump the jack, possibly because I had to do it lying on my back and reaching way out around the wheels. But it also occurred to me that the sway bar was trying to take the tilt off the frame by transferring some weight off the passenger side springs onto the driver's side springs. To test this, when I did the passenger side brakes I backed the driver's side duals onto some 2X10 boards to raise them and activate the sway bar in the hope that when I jacked the passenger side, the sway bar would have removed weight from that side. It did seem that this made it easier to pump the jack, but perhaps that was only because I was going on a preconceived notion. Wondering what others think?
