I have a set of the pace lts on my truck and also had problems withy the passenger side to get to slip through to bolt on on. when i installed mine on the passeneger side we removed the a/c hose (if you do this you might want to cover the exhaust inlets cuz the refrigerant goes everywhere even after we tried to bleed it all out ) u'll have to refill the ac afterwards but it made4 sum more room and i also removed the dipstick and added a lil wd-40 to lube things up a bitand just took some time tryin to work it through had no problems denting or anything like that. just had to take sum exrta frustrating time to work with it and it finally just slid through. oh and im not sure wether they finally went from the top or comin through the bottom i think it was through the bottom.