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I drape a white towel over the steering wheel and put a reflective windshield thing up. So far I've managed to avoid ovenmitts and boxing gloves.The CUCVLOVER steering wheel Mod. This should go in the stickys. Along with the oven mitts. My steering wheel and shifter gets so hot I wear boxing gloves when I drive. That just me fair skinned blonde haired blue eyes.
I had heard years back (from a source I cannot remember) that one should never reuse the u-bolts. I just cut them off with a cut-off wheel on the angle grinder. I jump every time each one pops, as it startles me even though I know it's coming. I have rebuilt or added to a few spring packs and I just go to Wheeling Spring, where they make their own, with my old ones and will have a new set in just a couple days. You may have a local place there that makes them. If I am remembering right it is around $55/set for the last set they made me.
Your right, you are never suppose to reuse U-bolts. I was just "hoping" that I could get away with it as money is tight lately.
Oh Yeah, those rivets are a nightmare! I feel your pain it, took me a Full day to get the 8 out for the ORD shackle flip kit using 3 drill bits and a punch.
My ex's father showed me a good trick to remove those rivets in minutes. Take the infamous angle grinder with the cutoff wheel and cut the rivet head in half (coming straight into it vertically) and then turn the grinder on a 90° angle cutting each half of a rivet head in half again. Now the rivet head is quartered. Then a few smacks with a super sharp thin American made chisel against the frame and into the rivet head and it is cut right off. There is very little material left holding each quarter of the rivet head after the cut off wheel has sliced it in four pieces. Of course this only works where you can get the grinder in.
Curious to see where you hung all those lights.
I wasn't referring to removing the rivets. That only took a few minutes with the grinder and air-hammer (air-chisel). The problem was lifting those heavy springs up onto the axle !!!! Then getting the bushings into the brackets. Hammer, Hammer, Hammer !!!! Pry, Pry, Pry !!!!
Ive got a project that I'm building & wanted the rear sway bar & narrow dually rear axle.
I figured it could be done pretty easily. I didn't know how hard it would be to get the parts though. How does your truck handle now with the sway bar in ? Do you tow much with your truck ? I tow a RV trailer around and sometimes in high wind areas it can whip me around pretty good.
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Sofar just have the floods mounted in the grill guard.the 07382 driving lights will also be mounted in the grill guard. The 07397 spots and another set of 07392 floods will go in the smittybilt #40204 and smittybilt #40002 on top of cab.I had to cut some of the horizontal supports on the grill guard and will weld back in afterwards. The lights are 7 inches in diameter.
That sounds pretty fancy. Got any pics?
So you have installed a anti-sway bar in your M1028 ? or M1031 ? How does it feel towing now ? Thanks.
For some reason this site is really slow tonight. In fact it has bumped me off twice now ! I think these pictures will go through though. One shows where I removed the bump stop bracket and the other shows the heavy duty "ORD" shackles I went with.
