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Apr 23, 2006 | 12:03 PM

Joe T.

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Frame restoration

Has anyone ever removed the rear leaf spring mount castings from the frame to clean and paint. Then, re-attached them with either rivits or something else ? ( 55' F-100 ) Thanks, Joe

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Apr 23, 2006 | 01:45 PM

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I drilled mine out and replaced with bolts however, you are probably going to need new brackets, bushings, pins, etc.
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Apr 23, 2006 | 02:30 PM

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jaye, nice pics in your gallery.

The only thing I replaced on mine was the swing brackets and pins/bushings; along with the leaf springs; both on the front and rear.

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Apr 23, 2006 | 03:03 PM

reamer

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Drilled them out to remove, repair, paint the frame liners, sandblast, Por-15 the frame and grade 8's all around. ('48 F-5)

Apr 24, 2006 | 05:47 PM

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Thanks for all info, guys. How about any of the other cross members ?

Apr 24, 2006 | 08:32 PM

reamer

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Had to take all the cross members out along with the rear-front spring and the front-rear spring mounts off to get the liners out.
Over 100 #&%$ rivets. Swollen knuckes and burised fingers!

Apr 24, 2006 | 09:06 PM

Joe T.

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This may be a dumb question but what do you mean by "liners" and would the '55 F-100 have them ?

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Apr 25, 2006 | 05:52 PM

Joe T.

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I'm thinking they mean a bushing in the leaf spring mount. At first it seemed like some sort of inner frame rail like my '43 ****** jeep has. Thought my frame was missing something for a minute there.