Rear stabilizer bar bushings

[Duckworthe]

Ok, just figured that I would share what I did to replace my worn out swawbar rubber bushings,(item 8 in the drawings). NOTE: Now please understand that this is just how I handled the problem/fix. By no means is it the right way or wrong way. Also understand that nine is a highly used RV and I am far from a purist and don't care that it isn't the "correct" part number. After saying that.... breath..... After finding that new ones are hard to find, except through the manufacture, and they are $95 each plus shipping I decided to find my own or make my own. Most if the items on these trucks are not purpose built just for these trucks. Well, I couldn't find the bushing right out of the catalog that I had on hand, but what I did find is the bushing from Premier , item 348A. It comes in either black or orange. Also, it is poly not rubber so it will last a looong time with no rot, but maybe a little squeaking at times as poly has a tendency to do that. This bushing has the correct interior diameter but requires the outer groove to be turned into it. So off to my buddies lathe to turn them down. It took about 20 min to do the first one as I didn't have much of the old one to use for measuring off of. In the end I only paid $43.00 for both bushings and it is going to be just what I needed, Money saved and truck on the road for the coming weekend to the mountains or desert. I tried to attach pics but the site is just not letting them attach the past few days, sorry.
Eric

 

[Duckworthe]

Well at least I got one pic to load!

 

[1951M1078]

What about drilling a hole in the "U" bracket and then a hole in the bushing and installing a zerk fitting ? Maybe from the rear side ?

 

[Duckworthe]

I have done that in the past on my street trucks that get annoying to listen to. However I doubt that I will ever hear these way back there over this engine. HAHAHA

 

[Duckworthe]

I do however lube them before I install them. That will last a while on this truck. Usually only have to lube them every 40k miles

 

[Toyking]

Could you please post the "original" Bushing Part Number???

Thanks in advance

I found it in the TM.. thanks though

btw stock "mount resilient" p/n 25952-1

 

[AlienFood]

Any tips on getting the lower resilient mount brack to squeeze the mount enough for the holes to line up?

I cannot get the 2 bottom bolts through, my bushing seems like a couple m.m. too large, even with my homemade jig of two pieces of steel with bolts to squeeze everything.

Also do ya'll recommend grease?

 

[Mullaney]

Any tips on getting the lower resilient mount brack to squeeze the mount enough for the holes to line up?

I cannot get the 2 bottom bolts through, my bushing seems like a couple m.m. too large, even with my homemade jig of two pieces of steel with bolts to squeeze everything.

Also do ya'll recommend grease?

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No grease for sure...

What about loosening the tight side and then bring them down a few turns each?
And/Or getting a set of longer bolts - run them into place - then remove one and replace it with the original, then do the other?

 

[GeneralDisorder]

Tisn't fun for sure. I absolutely WRECKED a C-Clamp getting them on. Bent it into pretzel and broke off half of the handle. Ran across it the other day and wondered why I even kept it...... Got it done but yeah you need to apply some serious force. If I was going to do it again I would make a tool from some 1" plate to cradle the bottom and a bar across the top with some all-thread. Probably need to do that at some point cause this will come up again.......

 

[GeneralDisorder]

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No grease for sure...

What about loosening the tight side and then bring them down a few turns each?
And/Or getting a set of longer bolts - run them into place - then remove one and replace it with the original, then do the other?

The bolts don't go in like that. They are horizontal not vertical and loosening one will do nothing to assist the other.

 

[Ronmar]

Well if you are a good balancer you might be able to put a floor jack under it to push the U bracket up against the weight of the truck to compress the bush enough to get the thru bolts to align... Need to do mine as they ae disintegrated...:O

 

[AlienFood]

@GeneralDisorder

Ya I am familiar with bursting C-Clamps, and i could feel the 2 i had on there about to pop. Thick ones too...

I made a tool with angle-iron, wasnt goin. Might try some leaf spring i have next, just my little drill press is strugglin.

Maybe oriellys has a rent-a-tool that would fit....We'll see.

Last resort today i was going to shave down a little off the flat bottom of the bushing with my 2x72 grinder. How un-wise would that be Lol?

 

[AlienFood]

Well if you are a good balancer you might be able to put a floor jack under it to push the U bracket up against the weight of the truck to compress the bush enough to get the thru bolts to align... Need to do mine as they ae disintegrated...:O

I did try that with my 20-ton bottle jack, was just raising the truck from the stabilizer bar. Had me worried about bending something that aint meant to bend.

 

[GeneralDisorder]

Yeah tried that with my 12 ton high-lift US Jack (official BII jack for the FMTV) and it just lifted the truck even with mine being the heavier 1079 van. Those bushings are serious and mine were directly from the same supplier to the Army. TM isn't much help either. Just basically says to install them.

 

[Ronmar]

"Make it work Chief" The story of my life...:O

 

[FarmingSmallKubota]

Been a couple of years since i did mine but it did not seem that difficult. Are your bushings freezing cold? i did mine in the summer so they were nice and warm so maybe a little more flexible?

 

[AlienFood]

First side done, Chief.

Oops forgot to loctite

 

[AlienFood]

Second side went a little smoother, wire wheeled the surfaces and bolts first.
Dang this phone makes my truck look rusty


Custom tool 2.0



Pressurized darwin award, probably shouldn't even admit that I tried this Lol.

 

[GeneralDisorder]

Oh mine was WAY sketchier than that. Sketch factor is offset by years of experience and I stay out of the blast arc or where I figure the blast will be anyway. .....

Also the C-clamp that I fornicated I was probably from the 1940's or so. Rusty and maybe not as strong as a quality modern unit.

 

[FarmingSmallKubota]

i took a rolling chain comealong and hooked to the shackles on the back of the truck and then to the bar and just cranked up on it the upward angle of the shackle was enough to pull it into place then used a drift pin put a bolt in and then did the other side.