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Truck is a 1978 F100, 300 six, 3 on the floor 2 wheel drive. The left front Spring/Shock mounting bracket has cracked allowing the shock body to hit the frame. I need to find one, or do the CV swap. Would rather keep it original.
Shown in parts catalog pic (see below) as basic part number 5A306
Complete part number: C6TZ-5A306-C .. 2WD Front Spring & Shock Absorber Housing - R/L is the same / Obsolete
Thanks Number Dummy. I have the Parts Illustrations and the Parts Text manuals.
I have not been able to figure out how to go from the number in the illustrations to an actual part number. It seems I'm missing the Rosetta Stone manual.
Thanks Number Dummy. I have the Parts Illustrations and the Parts Text manuals.
I have not been able to figure out how to go from the number in the illustrations to an actual part number. It seems I'm missing the Rosetta Stone manual.
Illustrations only show the basic part number. The text section is required to get the complete part number by adding the apropos prefix and suffix.
Look at the illustration in post #16 where I listed the basic part number of 5A306
Here's the pic from the text (Section 53, page 2) that shows the complete C6TZ-5A306-C part number and applications for 1973/79:
Got it! I kept looking in section 30 cause I thought the illustration and text sections were the same, but now I see you have to just go by group numbers. Thank you very much!
Good luck. It is a royal pain to get those rivets out. Do you have a smoke wrench (torch)? It might be easier. Both of the front suspension mounts are in there as well. Look at yours once you have them off and decide which ones to use. Also get grade 8 fine thread hardware to replace the rivets you remove. Get the size that fits close or open them up to the next size up bolt.
The rivet holes are slightly bigger than 1/2" so I think I'll get some 14mm frame bolts and ream out the hole to an interference fit. There doesn't seem to be a partial thread 14mm bolt with a short enough non-threaded part that will work so I'll go with full fine thread.
Thanks fe390pc!
That looks amazing. They are from an F250 so that could be the difference? Or just could have been that day of the week? Again they cleaned up very nice.
Just got the 14mm bolts that I ordered. They don't make a 14mm fine thread frame bolt, so I got the coarse thread ones. The only flange nuts they make in 14mm are the retained torque kind, not a bad thing.. I'm helping a friend finish his 30 X 40 garage. We have the lift installed with just a few details to finish so that it is fully ready. Should be working on the truck next week I hope.
Finally finished! Got some 14mm partial thread frame bolts. Used part of the frame section that came with the buckets I got from fe390pc as reinforcement inside the frame. added two extra bolts. As you can see from the picture of the old shock the suspension wasn't moving much on that side. New springs, shocks, radius arm bushings on the arms I had new bolts put on, flex brake lines, brake pads, draglink, and inner and outer tie rod ends. Had the old rotors turned. Next project is the power brake upgrade and add power steering. It sure was nice to have use of the lift at my friends garage, that's why I helped him build it!
