Cab Brackets
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Cab Brackets
Has anyone used one of these rear cab brackets?:
My wife bought two for my '48/51 F-4 for Christmas. She bought them from my local old Ford truck parts supplier. His catalog listed this part for '48-56 trucks. It looks like the holes are the same distance as the stamped original arms I have in the truck, which the rubber bushings have desegregated. The originals have a rubber block between them and the frame, there is no way of using the rubber block with these. I don't think it will matter. Any thoughts?
My wife bought two for my '48/51 F-4 for Christmas. She bought them from my local old Ford truck parts supplier. His catalog listed this part for '48-56 trucks. It looks like the holes are the same distance as the stamped original arms I have in the truck, which the rubber bushings have desegregated. The originals have a rubber block between them and the frame, there is no way of using the rubber block with these. I don't think it will matter. Any thoughts?
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i have them on my 54 f100 i used the rubbers on the frame also you just put the lower bolt in first and then push like h%ll to get the top bolt lined up and in just my .02$
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Just installed them a couple weeks ago. With the cab temporarily suspended with a floor jack and some blocks of wood, I bolted the arm to the cab first, then the other end to the cab bracket but did not have that bracket bolted to the frame yet. Inserted the rubber block where it goes. Pushed the bracket up into place (it will scrape the frame some), used a phillips screwdriver through the frame to line the bolt holes up and put one of the bolts in the hole not occupied by the screwdriver. Once that bolt got started good, took out the screwdriver and started that bolt.
I might add that on the cab bracket and the frame bracket, the holes that this suspension arm bolts up with, were also slightly oblong from years of use. I welded on extra thick grade 8 washers the size of the bolt (the washers were thicker than the original bracket metal). I can now say for the first time in my 18 years of driving this truck that the cab does not rest on the frame.
One question I have is in the cab pad kit that everyone sells, there's 4 tube shaped rubber bushings, about an inch long. What are those for?
Scott
I might add that on the cab bracket and the frame bracket, the holes that this suspension arm bolts up with, were also slightly oblong from years of use. I welded on extra thick grade 8 washers the size of the bolt (the washers were thicker than the original bracket metal). I can now say for the first time in my 18 years of driving this truck that the cab does not rest on the frame.
One question I have is in the cab pad kit that everyone sells, there's 4 tube shaped rubber bushings, about an inch long. What are those for?
Scott
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Just from a quick look it didn't look to me like the rubber blocks could be used with the new arms. I thought they would fall out but from what you guys are saying it looks like a pretty good piece. The cast part has to be better than the stamped steel original and that lasted over 50 years. I am going to long gone before these wear out.
Thanks for you input, I really appreciate it.
Thanks for you input, I really appreciate it.
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One question I have is in the cab pad kit that everyone sells, there's 4 tube shaped rubber bushings, about an inch long. What are those for?
Scott[/QUOTE]
Scott,
Those are the rubber bushings to rebuild the original steel arms. I did mine.
A tip on removing the old bushing: I used a hole saw that the OD was smaller than the hole in the arm and the ID (of the hole saw) was larger that the OD of the steel inner bushing. Did it in a drill press; very easy to do.
One question I have is in the cab pad kit that everyone sells, there's 4 tube shaped rubber bushings, about an inch long. What are those for?
Scott[/QUOTE]
Scott,
Those are the rubber bushings to rebuild the original steel arms. I did mine.
A tip on removing the old bushing: I used a hole saw that the OD was smaller than the hole in the arm and the ID (of the hole saw) was larger that the OD of the steel inner bushing. Did it in a drill press; very easy to do.
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Originally Posted by 49willard
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One question I have is in the cab pad kit that everyone sells, there's 4 tube shaped rubber bushings, about an inch long. What are those for?
Scott
One question I have is in the cab pad kit that everyone sells, there's 4 tube shaped rubber bushings, about an inch long. What are those for?
Scott
Those are the rubber bushings to rebuild the original steel arms. I did mine.
A tip on removing the old bushing: I used a hole saw that the OD was smaller than the hole in the arm and the ID (of the hole saw) was larger that the OD of the steel inner bushing. Did it in a drill press; very easy to do.[/QUOTE]mine were so far gone i pushed them out with my fingers.
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Edited out post. I missed the last line in grncoop's post
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