Bushings for frame need replacing.
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Bushings for frame need replacing.
1982 F-250 4 wheel drive with 6.6 liter engine and 4 speed manual. Need to replace the bushings between the frame and body. Any suggestions on the best bushings to buy? One bushing is gone and the others are worn and cracked. Also, the best tool for removing and replacing them?
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This is one of the worst jobs you will do on these trucks. The stock bushings use a sleeve and a bolt, and that all rusts together making it impossible sometimes to get apart. When I did my Bronco, I had some that were stuck and I let the impact spin the whole thing at high speed till it melted the rubber and fell out.
The stock rubber bushings give you a decent quiet isolated ride. I used the poly bushings, and while they made it handle around corners like it was on rails, they are noisy and you can hear every gravel in the road and you can also hear the transmission and the rearend more.
Check those brackets when you get the bushings off. My f250 bracket on the front pass side was rusted through, and on the f150 I had the rear cab bushing brackets were rusted through. On my Bronco, two of the frame brackets where rusted through. You can get flat pieces of metal and weld them on the bracket to fix it.
The stock rubber bushings give you a decent quiet isolated ride. I used the poly bushings, and while they made it handle around corners like it was on rails, they are noisy and you can hear every gravel in the road and you can also hear the transmission and the rearend more.
Check those brackets when you get the bushings off. My f250 bracket on the front pass side was rusted through, and on the f150 I had the rear cab bushing brackets were rusted through. On my Bronco, two of the frame brackets where rusted through. You can get flat pieces of metal and weld them on the bracket to fix it.
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