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Old Mar 5, 2011 | 11:18 AM
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Cutting rivets?????

It's Saturday! That means out to the garage. I am going to replace the bushings on the radius arms. As everything on this truck goes, I will have to do a fair share of dissassembly to make that happen. What would save me time is to cut the rivets on the crossmember, or whatever you want to call it. If I cut those rivets and replacedd them with bolts it would take about 2.5 hrs off the job. Has anyone done this????
 
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Old Mar 5, 2011 | 03:57 PM
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I've done it, and lots of others have done it. It's not the only way to do the job, but it is certainly one way. I also like it because it makes the job so much easier the next time around.
 
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Old Mar 6, 2011 | 03:27 PM
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The rivets on my 94 Explorer have been replaced with bolts. If you do use bolts use Grade 8 bolts.
 
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