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Good Rear Spring bushings

swettysblazer

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I am looking for some good spring bushings for my truck. I just picked up a shackle flip and am going to be revamping my stock springs and making sure that they are good to go and have no issues. Do I go with rubber? Poly? THe truck is mainly an off road toy. Very little chance of it being driven on the road anymore.
 
I don't care if on or off road I go poly if they need changed.

later service is also much shorter time frame as they pop out over rubber pressed in .
 
Defintly go with polyurethane bushings, when I first did my truck I did all poly bushing, except for one shackle I replaced that still had the OEM rubber. 6 years later when I had the take things apart the rubber bushing was cracking/falling apart and the bolt was seized. Every other poly bushing was good and bolts all loosened off.

Poly:


Rubber:
 
That's what I figured. I know when I put the lift springs in the rubber ones sucked to get out. Thanks for the input guys
 
Getting the old rubber bushings out is fairly easy--getting the new ones IN is the hard part!...without a press of some kind (A U-joint C-clamp tool works),it's a frustrating job...

Getting them out the easy way,is to just light the rubber ablaze with a propane torch and let it burn a few minutes,(if the spring is still in the truck,keep a water hose or fire extinguisher handy!)--then you can push out the rubber and metal inner sleeve with something like a screwdriver or large bolt,it'll be like putty...and then use a cold chisel to collapse the outer metal shell in some,until it comes out--or slit it with a hack saw or sawsall at the opening in the spring eye..
 
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