radius arm bushings
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radius arm bushings
My truck has the removable bushing mount on the radius arm, and I was wondering if there would be a landmine waiting if I only removed the mount to do the repair? Any takers?
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radius arm bushings
shouldn't be a big deal, besides the best way to learn is drag out your haynes book crawl under and break it three time before you fix it! jus kidding! just to replace the bushing shouldnt be bad for ya. DW
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radius arm bushings
Just my thought too, but I need to have it up and running for work tomorrow evening. The manual tells one to remove this and to remove that, but I feel that I can just jack it up, support the weight, and remove the mount. Having written that, I've felt that way before and spent the rest of a week on the repair!
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radius arm bushings
You minght find it useful to use a ratchet strap to keep the radius arm still. Sometimes they want to slide towards the rear of the truck on you. It's a lot easy now, than some I've done when the mount is riveted to the frame. Then you gotta jerk the suspension and arm forward which is often a PITA.
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radius arm bushings
All you need to do is remove that radius arm mount. Once you've got that and the nut on the end of the radius arm removed, it's a snap. Shouldn't take you long at all, maybe 20 minutes/side. You can always use a jack to lift the mount back up to the frame if you have trouble lining everything up in the end.
My wife and I did this over the weekend, and did the axle pivot bushings as well. If you've got a little time, you may consider replacing those axle pivot bushings as well. I never gave much thought to replacing them myself, but mine looked pretty bad once we removed them. Everything handles much better now.
My wife and I did this over the weekend, and did the axle pivot bushings as well. If you've got a little time, you may consider replacing those axle pivot bushings as well. I never gave much thought to replacing them myself, but mine looked pretty bad once we removed them. Everything handles much better now.
