Body Mount Bushing Install - now with pictures! And a video too!!!

I replaced mine a week ago with OEM parts. Hope this will give you an idea.






pics in order are:
Front
Rear
Rear
Front

 

Thanks @doorsidedown! That is a big help. Do you happen to have the rad. support part number handy by chance? I found the cab mount cushions, but working on find the radiator.

 

no, sorry man I replaced those with poly bushings from energy suspension.

 

Anyone have some suggestions on how to get this out? I can even turn the bolt and yes I took the nut off and banged it with a bfh

And I don’t have air tools or a torch

 

You can’t get the long bolt out thru the cab?

 

I tried to bring it out but no avail. Tried to screw it out and nothing either.

 

I’ll try that tomorrow

 

i have a sawzall just didn’t want to cut it without having a replacement

 

MAPP gas burns hotter than propane and is a good, inexpensive alternative to an acetylene torch. HD or Lowe’s should sell the bottles and then you just need to buy the flame nozzle. Splurge and go with the auto lighting nozzle instead of the twist on/off for gas flow. Bernzomatic has a good quality nozzle. Amazon sells one for $40.

Edit: You won’t believe all the things you will end up using it for.

 

thats cool

 

So I followed the suggestion about unplugging things so they don’t break but now I have abs and slip warning lights on. Any suggestions? I only did it so I wouldn’t break them when I swapped the body mount bushings

 

Try disconnecting the plug and reconnecting it. It might not have good contact. If that doesn't do it, try re-calibrating the VSC. Just a stab in the dark.

 

Better than my nothing I will try again thanks

 

Subbed for when I do mine

 

This sucks. Assuming you already fingered this out and got it done, but HEAT, OIL, REPEAT was my recipe for success. I had the luxury of a daily driver and several days to do it. Both my rear cab mounts were seized inside the sleeve. Impact gun wont do shit to break it loose against a rubber bushing. Twice a day I hit it with PB blaster and set the the bushing on fire with a propane torch. Finally one day, it broke free.

 

Anybody regret installing their Energy Suspension cab mounts upside down?

Planning on doing this job here in the very new future, got the parts in hand, already did the "universal" core support install and went thick on top.

 

Just do it ain't no downside!

 

You did it upside down for the "mini-lift"? I was actually going to ask you if you wanted the core support bushings from the kit, thinking it might help your front end... squeaks...

 

I've got the universal set up and yes I flipped mine. My front end squeaks because the whole thing is ripped apart so you're hearing the chinsy sheet metal flexing and tearing. Not to mention other things rattling around in the front suspension and stuff.

 

I found the core supports from the universal kit made a ton of friggin noise. Super annoying. Tossed those and went for the ones from the full kit, no issues since.

Havent done the body mounts, but I would think installing those backwards would end up putting more stress back on the body sheet metal, right? If the core support is X" height, but the body mounts are say X+1" isn't that the same as having old collapsed core supports?