Radius Bushings?

The_Eman · Post by **The_Eman** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:19 am

How difficult are these to change?

spartman · Post by **spartman** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:35 am

It no workie

The_Eman · Post by **The_Eman** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:29 pm

I was actually just talking about the bushings not the king pins. I did a search and found the following thread....

http://www.fordification.com/forum/view ... us+bushing

More difficult than I had originally imagined.

Unless I go the route of removing the rivot and replacing it with a bolt.

I guess I don't mind the idea of dropping the front suspension, although I have no idea at this point on how to do that. If I am going to do that I might as well change every bushing and the king pins and anything else you fellars point out. I think my king pins are in good shape. Although I don't know that for sure.

hmmmmmmmmm What to do. I'm tired of having crappy suspension.

fordman · Post by **fordman** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:33 pm

i couldnt see your pic so i was guessing you were talking about the king pins and bushing. the rab are easy to replace.. remove the nut on one side place a jack between sommething solid and the suspension and jack the arm, out of the bracket remove the bushings and replace them let the jack off and retighten the nut. do the same for the other side.

flyboy2610 · Post by **flyboy2610** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:42 pm

fordman wrote:i couldnt see your pic so i was guessing you were talking about the king pins and bushing.

Put your cursor on the box, right click the mouse, click view image, the pic is right there.

fordman · Post by **fordman** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:04 pm

that didnt work i tried that.

1971fordcustom · Post by **1971fordcustom** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:39 pm

come-along Is all I need to say Esey did not hurt the front suspension at all. Thats the red nek way of doing it. I did not want to puck up all of the front suspension and not get it back right then I woud be up to my head in &^&^* you know what I wanna say

Thunderfoot · Post by **Thunderfoot** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 12:12 am

Here is the photo http://images.kodakgallery.com/photos38 ... _0_ALB.jpg
Here is a another post for reference... http://www.fordification.com/forum/view ... t+bushings
I haven't done this myself yet so no input...

basketcase0302 · Post by **basketcase0302** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 4:51 am

Good threads guys!

I need to do mine, and the king pins, and the front springs.
Oh heck, might as well wait and turn it to 4WD.

Basketcase

The_Eman · Post by **The_Eman** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:53 am

fordman wrote:i couldnt see your pic so i was guessing you were talking about the king pins and bushing. the rab are easy to replace.. remove the nut on one side place a jack between sommething solid and the suspension and jack the arm, out of the bracket remove the bushings and replace them let the jack off and retighten the nut. do the same for the other side.

Pls clarify for the inexperienced.

1. "place the jack btwn something solid and the suspension." Where are you refering to?
2. "Jack the Arm" Do you mean forward with a come along? Where does the come along hook to?
thx,
Eric

fordman · Post by **fordman** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:18 pm

put the jack on the axle and something soild . come along i didnt say that. but you could hook it ot the axlke and something soild and pull it foraward.

rjewkes · Post by **rjewkes** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:52 pm

unbolt the ar ms one side at a time. use come along to pull the i beam forward.

rjewkes · Post by **rjewkes** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:55 pm

remove bushings replace and rebolt them you may need to use the come along to get the ar m

rjewkes · Post by **rjewkes** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:55 pm

back through the hole by pulling it towards the other side.

bolt it bcak down and repaet

rjewkes · Post by **rjewkes** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:56 pm

appaerantly you can't say ar m without the space.

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