Blue Body spacers degrading and crumbling

[Gamble]

Ok, my blue body spacers have degraded and apparently have been crushed by the weight of the body of the truck.

A couple of questions:

1. Does anyone have these body spacers back in stock? They were a very hard to find item a year ago. Are the blue spacers the best or are the purple or black spacers the best?

2. What is the thickness of these OEM spacers?

3. Any recommendation on an after market spacer for a heavy 1167? On my other truck I used the predator spacers but as this truck is now just under 12k lbs I'm not sure if after market spacers can support the weight.

 

[OBX]

Ok, my blue body spacers have degraded and apparently have been crushed by the weight of the body of the truck.

A couple of questions:

1. Does anyone have these body spacers back in stock? They were a very hard to find item a year ago. Are the blue spacers the best or are the purple or black spacers the best?

2. What is the thickness of these OEM spacers?

3. Any recommendation on an after market spacer for a heavy 1167? On my other truck I used the predator spacers but as this truck is now just under 12k lbs I'm not sure if after market spacers can support the weight.

Replaced my six crumbled blue ones with these three years ago. Still as new.

 

[Retiredwarhorses]

This is a known issue and the newer production mounts have supposedly fixed the premature failures.
The body mounts on you’re truck are probably 15yrs or older.

 

[Gamble]

What a mess these were. Thankfully, I got them swapped out. Sheesh. Shame on the company who provided these to our military.

 

[mrfarb]

I have the same problem on my 1151. How difficult were they to change? I’ve been avoiding the job.

 

[Mogman]

Replaced my six crumbled blue ones with these three years ago. Still as new.View attachment 931978

How did that work out? there are three different sets of part numbers for the mounts, at least on the earlier trucks., two sets for the later trucks and only one set of numbers for ser# 300K and up, I can't remember what the differences were but I do remember they had obvious differences on my M998

 

[Gamble]

I have the same problem on my 1151. How difficult were they to change? I’ve been avoiding the job.

The front are the most challenging id say. Also, without lifting the body in the air to more easily get to the mounts you may have to drop the exhaust to get to the driver side b pillar mount. I did a frame off body lift at the same time so mine may have been somewhat complicated by that. It was also a pain getting the crumbled blue spacers off. They became stuck so you have to use some persuasion to get them off.

Otherwise it's straight forward.