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PLAN B

This build was 2 parts 1 i have a truck I made to pretty to wheel so I'm building an ugly one I can actually enjoy. And 2. My cousin has been trying to join us for blazer bash but his truck wont be ready so we are surprising him with this one
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@Justin V now you have seen properly installed busings die on their first outing..... I'm not running 52s. I'm running stock spings... they were torqued literally right before my trip... if you guys even knew how anal I was about checking and rechecking torque specs you guys would think I'm crazy...... here's why it looks loose.... when the outside of that bushing cracked and fell out the whole shackle slid inward and is now touching the frame making it look loose. I will snap a picture of the other side that hasn't blown out yet.
 
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so mine look a lot tighter, one pick is mine needed some shims to make it tighter, the bushing came out and that was the issue. The other is how tight mine look in reference to the frame the shackles actually hit the bolt heads on mine.

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My shackles are just about rubbing on my springs. My bushing have been on for like 8 years, they are more then likely needing to be replaced but they still function.
 
Other side both sides torqued to specs and double checked the day before my trip.

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Ok, I see that the upper shackle bushing is gone. I still lean towards something else other than the bushing causing the bushing to fail. My ORD Fush kit and ORD spring bushings all look perfect after driving more than 2000 miles and several days in Moab last year. And my truck flexes for what it is. Which is a lot less than your's...

I'm sorry Joey.

Only thing I can say at this point is maybe look really hard at everything when you put it back together. The one spring eye bushing is definitely wasted in your pictures. Beside that, I can't really offer much else.
 
Ord told me this is typical and to be expected....
I need to find part numbers for their bushings so I can swap to a different brand or style... my factory stuff still looked good and the stock ones that were in my procomp springs for 2-3 moab trips looked nearly new.... I think their material sucks or I got a bad batch either way they are telling me I need to eat it.

Now I'm really worried about my ord engine mounts blowing up....

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Kinda sounds like if I stick with their stuff I should plan to replace them after each trail...

Btw... my procomp front bushings look perfect....
 
After many years of running many types of bushings, ruining likely hundreds of leaf spring bushings, I run stock bushings.

I bet I have destroyed 20 or more sets just like that. Nature of the beast. Had some last a couple years, ordered exact same ones. Bam one trip.

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blazinzuk said:
After many years of running many types of bushings, ruining likely hundreds of leaf spring bushings, I run stock bushings.

I bet I have destroyed 20 or more sets just like that. Nature of the beast. Had some last a couple years, ordered exact same ones. Bam one trip.

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If anyone knows what the stock replacement would be for those bushings I'd be buying them the second I had a part number in my Google or Amazon search bar.
 
After sleeping I'm much less bugged about the bushings. They are really not that horrible to replace. If I find some part numbers I will order some and keep a set or 2 in my wheeling gear.

I did notice one of my stock rear shackle bushings is toast. I was going to upgrade to their heavy duty rear shackles but part of me is really thinking I should just throw another stock bushing in the stock shackle
 
Btw @blazinzuk see that green truck on links? He was having some issues crawling. That thing leaned hard even on flat ground.... it wasn't selling me on links
 
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