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65 F100 I finally bought a cab to frame bushing kit as well as the ones for the core support. Anything I should know before tearing into this project on my daily driver? Thanks in advance!
Dan. TK65
Only to look out for rust in strange places (such as where the cab mounts go)
My core support also had significant rust damage on the sides of the radiator which I had to patch first (see the long thread entitled "Time for some body work" on my '66 F350 - same cab).
It's a clean California truck, I would have found something like that long ago. But thanks, appreciate it. How much time do you suppose I should set aside for this little project?
If there's no rust (usually a big "if" on these year trucks!), it won't take long at all.
Just remove the bolts, jack it up slightly to take the pressure off the rubber so you can slide the old one out , put the new bushing in, drop the bolt through, lower it down and tighten Repeat as needed.
If there's no rust (usually a big "if" on these year trucks!), it won't take long at all.
Just remove the bolts, jack it up slightly to take the pressure off the rubber so you can slide the old one out , put the new bushing in, drop the bolt through, lower it down and tighten Repeat as needed.
Mine was a bit harder than that
Ooh, that's pretty ugly, but I've seen worse. I've already been under the floormat and addressed the surface rust found there.
I know there are access holes in the wheel wells for the front cab mounts, are the rears under the gas tank, or is there access I haven't found yet?
Thanks for your support.
The rear cab mount bolts are under the gas tank. One of the first mods I made to my truck was to get that 16-gal. bomb out from behind my seat. The sloshing just creeped me out...
You can see the bolt heads in their recesses here:
On my 1966 2WD truck (1965/66 F100/250 2WD and 1966 f100 4WD are different than others for front mounts) on both the front and rear mounts it used the larger outer (upper) and smaller inner (lower) retainers. My truck is a deep So. Cal. truck with minimal rust but those upper and lower retainers and the bolts that pass through them were crusted well enough it was nice to have the cab completely removed when dealing with them. I still used a sawzall to cut them off since I had new ones. The body mount kits use large washers instead of these retainers so I just used the rubber pucks from the kit and bored them out to fit these retainers.
I froze the pucks and drilled them out to 13/16" inner diameter to fit the stock type of retainers front and rear.
On my 1966 2WD truck (1965/66 F100/250 2WD and 1966 f100 4WD are different than others for front mounts) on both the front and rear mounts it used the larger outer (upper) and smaller inner (lower) retainers. My truck is a deep So. Cal. truck with minimal rust but those upper and lower retainers and the bolts that pass through them were crusted well enough it was nice to have the cab completely removed when dealing with them. I still used a sawzall to cut them off since I had new ones. The body mount kits use large washers instead of these retainers so I just used the rubber pucks from the kit and bored them out to fit these retainers.
I froze the pucks and drilled them out to 13/16" inner diameter to fit the stock type of retainers front and rear.
I like that. I have tried to drill through rubber bushings so many times with absolutely no success. I will be freezing them from now on! How did I not think of that in all these years?
Since the 61 cab on my project has been swapped to the Bronco chassis, I can only imagine what retainer washers are on the rear mounts, I will find out soon enough when I get into the cab rust repairs.
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