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Has anyone replaced these? The bushings that fit in the back of the front suspension springs.
I got a wild hair and decided to do mine and it was really tough to get the old one out. I had to use a drill, Hi-Lift, BFH, chisel, and finally my saw-zall. I got the old one out and went to put he new one in and the hole is about 1/8th of an inch too small. I guess the spring eye springs tight around the bushing. Anyone done this and if so, how did you get the new one in?
Thanks!
-B.
Velvet has exhaust, overdrive, AND suspension. :P
The ramp champ pressed the old ones out and the new ones in.....
Hondo,
Are you talking about yourself in 3rd person, or is that a shop called "ramp champ"? I don't getcha.
What if someone has no press....what then?
As to Tom's taunts of Velvet- How is Velvet's bed? How is Velvet's front fenders? How is Velvet's rocker pannels?
-B.
Bed: Sturdy, yet well used.
Front fenders: Factory High clearance.
Rocker paNels: Armored with 1/8" aluminum diamond plate.
Tous chet.
-B.
#10 or #16?
http://www.m715zone.com/manuals/fig2-70.jpg
I replaced #16 with a long bolt,washers,&nuts.....pulled the old ones out and the new ones in at the sametime.
----Sawzall----- :? ??? You must have been over-thinking again!
What part number did you buy B-?
i need some too
k
Daqn,
Funny. I guess I was...only if I had been thinking more then I'd have come up with a method like you did. I was all "Get old one out. Go from there." which is underthinking.
It was #16. I may try your bolt method as I just got off the phone with TOMMMMERRRRRINNNNNOOOOO!!! (who is still taunting me with the idea that he and Mrs. Lawlor may fly down and bunk over) and he suggested a vice. Since my vice is bolted to my spool and I don't want to unbolt it, the bolt is the 3rd best thing. It beats my hammer method by a long shot.
I already did the front ones and I had no trouble there. I am doing this to try and eliminate my mysterious clunk that comes when I turn the steering wheel somethimes.
Thanks guys!
-B.
B: the easiest way is to have em pressed in. that nagging klunk is probably your front end falling out. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Ill bring mine to pull you up and down hills and well let you make all the sounds like your truck is runnin on its own power.
really man, Im glad to hear you got it runnin and want to see it make it to the fe if all goes well and I hope to have mine there too. AB LINN has the spring and all on ebay for sale, cheap.
-B.
Have you checked the mounting bolts on the shock(tower) support? My truck made some weird front-end sounds when I first got it, and the bolts were loose and had worn through the threads. I replaced them and no more noise. Just a Thought.
b, do they have a steel sleeve, if so freeze them overnight then lube them good and start them in hole then use dan's method or a big freakin c-clamp. oh yea, take a brake cyl hone or wire brush wheel and clean rust from spring eye.
Be sure to post if the bushings solve the clunk noise - my truck does it too and I'm interested in a possible cure. My truck makes a single clunk as the steering wheel is turned to the lock - same as yours -B?
Not to lock, just turned. It's usually when the truck has been sitting and I start it and then the first turn or so there's a shift feel and a slight noise. Nothing else after that.
I have tightened the shock mount bolts as mine, too were loose.
I tried the big bolt method last night and it twisted the bolt in half after several different sized cheatedr bars were used.
I guess I'll take the spring off and put it in my vice.
I should have known you hippies were of no use. Sheesh.
-B.
I cant hear anything on mine yet, still no exhaust on it but I checked my frontend and it pretty tight. I had a buddy turn the wheel from lock to lock and then rock it back and forth and it looked pretty good and tight. it needs greased though. ABlinn had one upper leaf with bushings installed for about $12.00, I think, on ebay.
All,
Well, I took my spring off so as to put it in the vice and squish the bushing in that way. As I took out the front spring bushing I noted that it seemed loose in the eye. I swapped them and the back one was a perfect fit to the front eye and the the front fit the back perfect.
It all made sense after that.
2 years ago I had replaced the front busings with 2 that i picked up from Memphis Equipment. They fit about 1/8" too loose. Then last week I went back to Memphis Equipment and got the rear ones and they were about 1/8" too big. I'll let ME know next time I'm there that they have the bins mixed up.
To anyone doing this: Tkae off your springs and use a vice and washer to press in the bushings. It's ALOT easier than any other method. If a bushing is gone, then you have to get out the metal outter sleeve and that can prove to be hard. I found that using a metal bladed saw-zall is easiest. Slip the blade between the ends of the spring and saw out the sleeve. Then it can be hammered out.
I coated the outside of my bushings with anti-sieze. My bolts too.
When you put the spring back on, put you jack under the center of the spring and tighten it back up to the axle houseing before you tighten your U bolts as this will ensure they all get leveled.
Good luck!
-B.
Guy,
This did cure my clunk. I had 3 bushing gone and one that was ovaled out.
-B,
The description of your CLUNK matches mine perfectly - I'm going to get some bushings ordered this week. Question, did you replace the bushing in the shackel when you changed the front and rear spring eye busings? I didn't know if I should pick this one up too. I want to have all the parts I need before I start the job.
Thanks,
Les
Les,
I forgot about you. Sorry.
To finnish the story- this DID fix my clunk. I drove my rig around alot this weekend and never heard it. It also seemed to fix alot of my stability problems that I had thought were bad shocks. My rig now feels more steady on the road.
I replaced the front shackle top bushings about a year ago and they still appeared new. The rest of my spring bushings are new too. It was really an easy job and I wish I'da done it a year ago as I was always fearful of that clunk.
Good luck,
-B.