The Incredible Shrinking U-Bolt

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Feb 15, 2017 | 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted by seaves46

Looking at that Pic there are a lot of leafs in that spring pack .
Could it be that you were using u bolts for an F100 , and maybe an f250 has to use longer u bolts due to the thicker spring pack ?
Maybe Number Dummy could confirm if there are different u bolts between the models ?

I wondered that too. The master parts catalog shows that they use the same size u-bolt, but that could be wrong.

Feb 15, 2017 | 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Tedster9

One thing to look at is the exact type that is used, it has to do with the hardware that secures the spring pack on top, a square U-bolt won't hold right where a semi-round is used.

I wondered this too, but since all replacements offered by suppliers look to be square, I figured I didn't have too many options.
Finding u-bolts at all that are less than 2" proved to be difficult.
Although, I didn't ask ESPO if they had semi-round options. I was just tickled they had the width and length required.