coming home tonight from work the rear pasanger side spring hanger broke. All the others look good . so how hard is it to replace the one side. i know im going to have to grind off the rivets and remove the rest of it from the spring shackle . but how hard is it going to be to get the spring back in place.

 

I replaced both rear spring hangers on my old '92 F-350 in an afternoon with no air tools. If you do one side I highly suggest you do the other.......

 

I did use air tools. No biggie; run what ya brung.

I used a piece of MIG wire to fish the bolts through the holes in the frame and had about enough room between the tank and frame to drop a box wrench on the bolt heads. I also hit the frame under the hanger with a wire brush, squirted it with rust converter, and painted it before I put the hanger on.

You'll want new U bolts when you do the job. I put the truck frame on jackstands then used a floor jack to support the axle while I loosened the U bolts and to lower the axle once I had the U bolts loose. The spring was no problem to put in; everything lined right up. I jacked the axle up to meet the spring, put the new U bolts in and snugged them, then took the truck off the jackstands and tightened everything up while the truck was on the ground. The shackle bolts want something like 115 ft-lbs while the U bolts want 100 ft-lbs.

One thing you'll find out when you start out to remove the rivets is they are made of very good steel. I still wonder why Ford didn't make the shackle hangers out of the same steel.

 

If you get a dorman brand one(napa, advance) they come with new hardware.

Also, you do NOT need new u-bold. you will not even touch them.

I would look at your shackles too while you are in there. Just 2 more bolts(doorman ones come with new bolts and bushing if yours needs a bushing)

 

sounds like a fun couple hours in the garage drinking and working on my truck . have air tools so it shouldn't be that bad

 

well attempted to replace tonight . ran in to a problem the shackle bushing is stuck in the spring its self and will not budge

 

So you can't get the bolt out right? This is common and what I have done is cut the ends off the bolt to get the shackle out of the way and then use a bearing puller to push the bolt and sleeve out of the bushing.

 

i will have to try that and let you know how it woks .

 

I took the spring off, and pushed the bolt out with another bolt with my vise
Get some Fluid Film to soak everything with.