1996 F250 Diesel
All of the bushings are bad, radius arms, the two in the I-Beams under the motor. Every other rubber piece. Shocks worn out.
Brakes and wheel bearings are good.
(Actually that really thin piece of sheet metal that the calipers ride on is slipping on one side is slipping and hitting the disk, but that doesn't seem to hurt anything, just noisy sometimes.)

I don't have enough money to fix all of it at one time.
Any advice on what order to fix these things would be great.

 

Good question.. I'd be interested in this as well. Not all of us can afford to replace all this stuff at once or don't have another vehicle to drive during the down time. *Bump*

 

If you think your brakes are good I would move next to the steering components. Who cares if it rides good if you can't steer it.

Then move on to the shocks and springs.

I am going thru this process rights now and it is time consuming to take everything apart, clean it, take the rust off if you want to and then reinstall. Best thing is to be organized and take pictures before you disassemble.

Good luck, the results are worth it.

 

If you think it will hold out, I'd buy all the parts over time (or save up, but parts would be less tempting to spend), plus have a bit of a cash reserve for incidental parts, then do all the work at once so that you don't risk damaging the new parts by taking things apart several times (and waste a bunch of your time).

Jason

 

Personally, the I-Beam bushing would be one I'd replace first. It's a PITA and should be done. Once that's replaced, most everything else should come easy.

How are the tie rods and ball joints? Shocks are easy.

 

Great idea! Is there such thing as an IPC for these trucks? (Illustrated Parts Catalog) I know LMC has a little bit of that going on but its kinda hard to work with..