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Jan 1, 2004 | 12:31 PM

loveoldtrux

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rub-b-b-b-er biscuits

Good day gentlemen ~

Trying to restore an older F-100 cab and the fooz-ball who sold me the cab made an attempt to remove the front cab mounts but instead obliterated the bolt heads (the head is visibly melted away and so is the nut on the bottom) and did not finish the job of removing the front cab mounts (rubber biscuits). So....he cut the frame off instead!! (hey - don't ask me.....he's not from MY family!...); now I've got a partial frame left on both sides of the cab.

So....any idea as to what-to-do next? Will I have to haul this to a welder and have a blowtorch used to burn through the stinky rubber and eventually through the mounting bolts; then take a chisel-punch and knock the remainder out of the hole?

Happy new year ----

Jan 1, 2004 | 12:56 PM

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If your not in need of the bushings, or from the sounds of things they are already junk.. Just take a torch and cut the nut off the bottm and slide the bolt up thru the cab.

Jan 1, 2004 | 02:41 PM

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Thanks for the feedback, 79_250RangerLariat.

True; the bushings are history - they are obviously bad. I'll be stuck with locating new ones. Will arrange to haul the cab to town to a welder next week during a vacation day.

Thanks for the clarification & have a safe new year...

Jan 1, 2004 | 06:07 PM

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I just finished cab bushings on my '75. Along with floors, perches/mounts, etc. I managed to remove my old mounts with a hacksaw. I ground off the nut at the bottom and the bolt head at the top after I realized they were siezed tighter than a jug. They STILL wouldn't budge. I beat on them with everything from a ball peen to a sledge. I found out that the bottom nut and washer are welded together. And on the topside of the washer there is a 2 or 3 inch sleeve that fits over the bolt . This sleeve is made onto the washer and nut as an assembly. Over time the sleeve seizes to the rubber and bolt. I put a bottle jack under the bottom washer and jacked it up. The weight of the truck caused the bushing to raise slightly giving me enough of a gap to slip a hacksaw in between the frame and the rubber mount. Then I cut through the sleeve and bolt. After spraying oil on the blade (to keep the ruber from binding), cutting, resting, cutting.....I finally got through it. Then I remembered I had three more to go. It wasn't pretty. Had to do the same for them all. But now the cab is solid and my feet don't fall through the floor anymore. I had the cab on the truck so that's how the jack method I came up with works. I need torches. A trip to the welding shop is probably in order.

Jan 1, 2004 | 06:44 PM

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71LTD390 ~

Thanks for sharing that nightmare with me!! The back biscuits / mounts are gone, so I just have the front to work on. The heads of the bolts and nuts have both been blasted off by what appears to have been a blow-torch by some rocket-scientist earlier....leaving molten shards everywhere. As there are only a few inches of frame left attached to the mounts on both sides, I think I'll try your hacksaw trick this weekend.

Wish me luck...

Jan 1, 2004 | 06:44 PM

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Jan 4, 2004 | 12:46 PM

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71LTD390 ~

Thanks for the hacksaw trick / tip - that did it; about 30 minutes on each side with some WD40 for lubricant. Now, I just need to find the replacement bushings / washers / nuts / sleeves for a '74 F-100.

The next mission impossible assignment begins...