Body bushings?

[Thewespaul]

I’ll have to see, I don’t have much of a plan until I get the axles under the truck and see how everything lays, I’d like to cobble something together using the 2wd coil buckets but radius arms may be more of a challenge. If it’s not something I can just throw together on the welding table then it will go on the truck with leafs at first.

Here is the truck I’ll be ripping the axles from, we got a check for $7,800 for the damage and bought the truck back from insurance for $87.

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I’ll be going through the axles while I have them out, what do you recommend for parts?

 

[typ4]

Dang, fuel leak?

 

[Pork_Chop50]

So while you're looking through radius arm options I will toss this one at you. Bloody Knuckle Garage, used to be CAGE Off Road, and has long or short radius arms for axle swaps. Very similar to James Duff, which I would also recommend. Buddies have used both for swapping in solid axles under S10's mainly.

 

[Thewespaul]

Dang, fuel leak?

HPOP came apart and blew oil on the turbo, got so hot it melted the alternator
@Pork_Chop50 ill check them out thanks man

 

[snicklas]

Wes,

I’ll shoot you a pm this weekend, that way we don’t plug up an IDI era body bushing thread with 6.0 era axle stuff. Or I can start another thread in the 6.0 section so everyone can see it, if you think that would be better.....

 

[chillman88]

Or I can start another thread in the 6.0 section so everyone can see it, if you think that would be better.....

This

I don't mind the clutter but I still want to read the axle stuff! Either pm or put the link up here so I can follow. I don't usually troll the 6.0 section lol

 

[Thewespaul]

Yeah let’s start a thread up, share the info for all

 

[saburai]

HPOP came apart and blew oil on the turbo, got so hot it melted the alternator
@Pork_Chop50 ill check them out thanks man

Is that a common failure?
My wife saw the picture and asked "can that happen to us?"

 

[79jasper]

No. First one I've heard of.
Block heaters are common fire starters though. Lol
Just the other day my buddy was driving his 15 or 16 dodge 5500 work truck. Tcase came apart, oil hit the exhaust and burnt it to the ground.

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[chillman88]

No. First one I've heard of.
Block heaters are common fire starters though. Lol
Just the other day my buddy was driving his 15 or 16 dodge 5500 work truck. Tcase came apart, oil hit the exhaust and burnt it to the ground.

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I still feel lucky that mine hasn't lit up. Twice I've had the fuel filter drop off and cover the passenger manifold. Yeah the flash point is high but it's still combustible.

 

[saburai]

I still feel lucky that mine hasn't lit up. Twice I've had the fuel filter drop off and cover the passenger manifold. Yeah the flash point is high but it's still combustible.

You are lucky. What truck?

 

[chillman88]

You are lucky. What truck?

My 91. 7.3 NA.

In regards to my bushings... Yeah I'm pretty sure I found the noise.

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Those are the bolts for the transmission crossmember on the drivers side. By the shiny I'm going to guess they're hitting and making my annoying clunk.

 

[saburai]

My 91. 7.3 NA.

In regards to my bushings... Yeah I'm pretty sure I found the noise.

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Those are the bolts for the transmission crossmember on the drivers side. By the shiny I'm going to guess they're hitting and making my annoying clunk.

I'd say that's the culprit.
Not to hijack, but why did the filter drop off?

 

[chillman88]

I'd say that's the culprit.
Not to hijack, but why did the filter drop off?

No clue. I posted about it a few months ago.

https://www.oilburners.net/threads/expensive-automatic-undercoating.80406/

The filter is officially a year old last week. Whatever O'riellys in Texas had cheap when I bought the truck. Probably their house brand. I changed it before heading back to NY. It made it something like 6000 miles before it fell off this summer. Then it fell off again a couple months later. Needless to say I've been checking it regularly now and have marked it where it's tight so I'll be able to tell if it loosens up again just by looking at it.

I'll buy a new filter whenever I can manage the extra $40, but for now I just have to keep an eye on it.

 

[saburai]

Wow! Sorry for your misfortune. I'll be sure to keep an eye on mine, thanks for the heads up.