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

Starting this project today.. Grabbing 4x4 number now.

Gonna check the washers and sleeves beforehand now as well.

 

Well shit... Might be stuck here..

Not enough room to get the wood block on the pinch weld well enough. Sliders are in the way. Tried it, but the block kicked out (safely believe it or not)..

 

Going to have to find another method to pry and hold them up.

Unless someone with sliders has done these with a proven method already?

 

I know the pinch weld is the best place, but what about up behind it?

 

Idea time.

Cut your block of wood at a slant in order to angle it so it touches the pinch weld on the back of the cab. I used a piece of firewood cut the same way. I can't see what you're working with but I was seated evenly across the back and side pinch welds

 

Got it

 

Now seeing this pic my idea might work. Or take a short cut of 2x4 and make a "T" so you slide in beyond the sliders and contact both pinch welds

 

Got the rear out.

Just to clarify.. The left is how it came out.. The right is how the new ones go in?

 

Or, if I understand correctly, flip the new ones to yield a little more height?

 

Thats how I installed them. Body lines wont line up the other way

 

just between the bed and cab tho. good call though. didnt even think abut that.

 

Passenger side done. Raised it an 1/8". Finishing it up and moving to the radiator mounts

 

So I've got the radiator bushings in now.. They are the separate ones. Not the ones that come in the body kit. I put the smaller bushing on top.. Wondering if I should swap them around, or is that just for aftermarket bumpers to gain some clearance between bumper and fender. I have the smaller bushing on top for the body mounts as well (regular install method), so I should probably keep them all consistent yeah?

 

Just looks slightly used.

 

Nope, they look like that pretty much from the factory.

 

I put the larger up top. Im considering putting the smaller up top since I had to adjust my hood, snapped a headlight bracket and my hood sits uneven with my fenders still.

EDIT: I also have a Brute Force Fab front bumper and had to chop the center support bracket to the headlights.

 

See, wondering if I should just leave the smaller one on top since I have factory bumpers. Hmmm..

 

Despite what some people have done, I would leave the bushings in the stock arrangement. Rubber compresses alot more than polyurethane so putting the larger on top means added stress all around.

 

You'd never notice the body lines. Mine look normal.

 

I'm just gonna leave them all (radiator and body bushings) with the smaller one on top. Still better and more supportive than the OEM destroyed ones.

Thanks guys.