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Hey all need some help!!! Posted this in the 73-79 forum as well, but can just as well fit here to.
Body mount sleeves. How do you get those little @&^#&^ apart!
I have tried heating them up and pounding them apart. I put some pictures in my galary to show what they look like. Ones a male lower body mount and the other is a female upper body mount. 4 under the cab and 2 for the front clip radiator support.
I am short of cutting them suckers apart, but they are a pretty penny for something that looks almost like a simple washer.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated or they will meet their doom of the saw-zall!!
They have to come apart some how. When people do body lifts don't they end up having to take these suckers off so they can get bigger bushings in-between them?? Or do people just end up cutting them apart and buying new ones. In that case that REALLY $#%^& me off, if Ford knew the only way to get them apart is to cut them off! Cheapest I have found for a set of new ones are roughly $135!
Thanks guys!!
Rompin 78
Body mount sleeves. How do you get those little @&^#&^ apart!
I have tried heating them up and pounding them apart. I put some pictures in my galary to show what they look like. Ones a male lower body mount and the other is a female upper body mount. 4 under the cab and 2 for the front clip radiator support.
I am short of cutting them suckers apart, but they are a pretty penny for something that looks almost like a simple washer.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated or they will meet their doom of the saw-zall!!
They have to come apart some how. When people do body lifts don't they end up having to take these suckers off so they can get bigger bushings in-between them?? Or do people just end up cutting them apart and buying new ones. In that case that REALLY $#%^& me off, if Ford knew the only way to get them apart is to cut them off! Cheapest I have found for a set of new ones are roughly $135!
Thanks guys!!
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I have never actually seen one of these on a truck, but, it looks like one goes inside the other and the rubber bushing sits around the spindle and the bolt goes through the middle?
Does one 1/2 go through the floor and mets the other that sits on the frame? If so, I would remove the rubber and stick a small hydraulic piston or car jack (X type) and jack the two halves apart. They do sell autobody spreaders for around $50 at northerntools.com that might work.
I have resisted posting about your tow hook, when I saw a post about that bracket you needed. But, to me it looks like a dangerous setup having a tow hook welded to a receiver, with the receiver itself welded to the frame in a way that if it gets ripped off will take the body mount with it.
To me, it does not look like a good strong attachment for a truck, that might weigh 6000 pounds, in a good stuck.
BTW: Those look like awesome agressive AG type tire. What size are they, 38s >?
Does one 1/2 go through the floor and mets the other that sits on the frame? If so, I would remove the rubber and stick a small hydraulic piston or car jack (X type) and jack the two halves apart. They do sell autobody spreaders for around $50 at northerntools.com that might work.
I have resisted posting about your tow hook, when I saw a post about that bracket you needed. But, to me it looks like a dangerous setup having a tow hook welded to a receiver, with the receiver itself welded to the frame in a way that if it gets ripped off will take the body mount with it.
To me, it does not look like a good strong attachment for a truck, that might weigh 6000 pounds, in a good stuck.
BTW: Those look like awesome agressive AG type tire. What size are they, 38s >?
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Thanks for writing back rebocardo!
You are right. One goes inside the other and the rubber bushing sits around the spindle and the bolt goes through the middle.
Goes together like this.
Cab
top sleeve
rubber bushing
Frame
rubber bushing
lower sleeve
They are pushed together.
As for the my other post.
The steering stabilizer bracket is what I am needing. I found that picture from another ford site, the guy that took the picture said I could use it. So I have no idea what he is running. Thats a picture of a bronco front end.
Until I found that picture, I had no idea what I was looking for! But thought maybe someone had one they where no longer using, I don't want to get dual stabilizers cause I'm not running anything that big. just want to get some of it back to stock.
Thanks again for the idea!
Rompin 78
You are right. One goes inside the other and the rubber bushing sits around the spindle and the bolt goes through the middle.
Goes together like this.
Cab
top sleeve
rubber bushing
Frame
rubber bushing
lower sleeve
They are pushed together.
As for the my other post.
The steering stabilizer bracket is what I am needing. I found that picture from another ford site, the guy that took the picture said I could use it. So I have no idea what he is running. Thats a picture of a bronco front end.
Until I found that picture, I had no idea what I was looking for! But thought maybe someone had one they where no longer using, I don't want to get dual stabilizers cause I'm not running anything that big. just want to get some of it back to stock.
Thanks again for the idea!
Rompin 78
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Good news!!!
Just as I was just starting to run out of ideas, I begin thinking about the bushings that I bought, when I was going throught the kit I bought, this little piece of paper floated out!
Guess what, it showed how to get them apart!! You take a bolt of the same size and screw it into the nut from underneath. Then taking a punch, hammer out the bottom piece from the top!
I got 5 out of 6 apart! The 6th one, it was really rusted, and I ended up hammering out the bolt, striping the threads on the nut. Oh well, it came off in 30 seconds with a saw zall!
Thats better then buying them all! For 1 its about $10 versus the $130 I would have had to spend!
Just thought you guys would like to know, or someone else who has the same problem!
Rompin 78
Just as I was just starting to run out of ideas, I begin thinking about the bushings that I bought, when I was going throught the kit I bought, this little piece of paper floated out!
Guess what, it showed how to get them apart!! You take a bolt of the same size and screw it into the nut from underneath. Then taking a punch, hammer out the bottom piece from the top!
I got 5 out of 6 apart! The 6th one, it was really rusted, and I ended up hammering out the bolt, striping the threads on the nut. Oh well, it came off in 30 seconds with a saw zall!
Thats better then buying them all! For 1 its about $10 versus the $130 I would have had to spend!
Just thought you guys would like to know, or someone else who has the same problem!
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Ive just finished replacing all of the cab mount bushings in my 95 F250.......... Bought the whole bushing kit from JC Whitney for $59 bucks ........... Prothane material..... Thought you might be interested. 
