[Cautrell05]

With the cab mounts more or less done other than finish welding The next step was to get the steering and the pedals in place. The cab Mount bushings that I have been using came on the S10 and are currently about 28 years old and definitely look like it. They're good enough for mock-up but they're pretty squishy and they're not really in that great of shape. I looked into different options, but I wanted to stick with the OE style mount. Reading on several of the S10 forums the guys with the poly cab mounts said that they work good, they're a little more firm than stock and you just have to grease them really good when you put them in so they don't squeak. Where I live in the country and I have a minimum of a mile and a half of gravel between my house and the highway I don't see grease on the cab mounts is being a good long-term solution. All that will do is just collect a lot of dirt and gravel and just make a mess. I did find some of the original S10 mounts there were still available through GM. My cost working at GM was about 25 bucks a piece for the upper half. The lower half is about the same cost which is just kind of ridiculous considering it's just a rubber donut. I bought four new uppers and I figured the lowers actually are in pretty decent shape or I can source them pretty easy from a you pull it yard off of something newer. And they're easy to change later. Overall I gained just under three eighths of an inch of cab height between the new bushings not being squished and these having a quarter inch shim on top of them. if I really wanted to I could have just transferred the rubber portion and use the old shells but I'm not real worried about a quarter inch of frame height.