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It wasn't pretty but it allowed me to drive the truck over a hundred miles without incident. All of the force of these ends are fore and aft, and those bars only kept it from sliding back off the bushing. And they even stayed on during the press out of the old ends, so it was as the saying goes...

In hind sight it would have most likely been easier to disassemble the springs out of the way, however the old nut had to be torched off and being in NY sate and the associated rust, it seemed easier (not always the best choice) to leave the spring. Putting it back together meant turning the...

I forgot to mention that these replacement torque rod ends SIGNIFICANTLY reduced the amount of "bounce" that the truck had while driving. Really made a huge difference in the ride of the truck.

Shhhh remember we weren't going to mention that?????

And after we got done we took a cruise out on Lake Ontario and check out what we found......

Well its been a little while, and I had to drag Doghead off of his deathbed with a 117 deg temp or something....hot flashes, menopause....IDK, but he was a great help none the less. The job on these uppers was a little more difficult, really alot more difficult than the bottoms. But we got it...

HA Ha! If you can't weld well, weld a lot!

Ok, so today I made a very ugly temporary repair, while I am still waiting on parts to come....It seems to be holding on a test drive, hopefully it will make the 50 mile trip to a friend's house so we can replace the bushings. Good news is, ALL of the offending noise is gone, so I am sure this...

Yeah they are definately on the list, I have a complete set of serviceable driveshafts, as well as two axle assemblies, so no matter what at least I have the parts to fix. I was thinking the diffs because there is a lot of oil on the seal and that was always dry, so thinking there was some undo...

So after reading the TM, it says that these uppers have to be "pre-stressed". Has anyone done this? If not has the install survived OK? I guess I just can't understand what this is doing. Any thoughts?

So I have been chasing a horrible "bag of marbles in a steel bowl" sound for lack of a better term. It all started after I played with my transfer case for the first time, so I ASSUMED the problem was in the transfer case. The scenario: Get up to speed, start coasting down from about 40-45...