Re: ford truck- radius arm bushing???

Posted by Stumpy on December 08, 2004 at 15:11:05 from (216.107.193.96):

In Reply to: Re: ford truck- radius arm bushing??? posted by txblu on December 07, 2004 at 06:53:28:

Iused to work for a large school bus company, we had tons of E-350 vans. Some had the brackets riveted on others were bolted on, as a matter of fact you mentioned the exhaust getting in the way!
Man are you right, The 7.3L diesels right side pipe was almost on the bolt heads which Ford put on from the inside of the rail to the outside. That was not a better idea. I almost want to think that the heavy duallies had the bolts while the lighter sigle wheel jobs had the rivets. I am positive the bolts would have been grade 8 or better.

I used to pick up the front end with a roll around end lift, if they were riveted on I would use a legnth of chain and a small load binder to pull the axle beam forward, moved just enough.
We found the plactic style bushings that Ford went to as being the most durable.

That's my .02 have fun :)

Stumpy

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