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**Ironangel** · 12-14-2018, 10:42 PM

The pic above doesn't show the slot completely...Once the old stop is removed you can take a large screw driver and bend the slot tabs up to open one end allowing you to slide the new stop in. Heat the new stop up in a pan of boiling water while you wire brush the mounting surfaces clean and smooth. Smear some grease on the mount and the new stop and push it on the two tabs that you bent up. When you get it on, use a punch to hammer the tabs back down and your done...This is a job best done when making a spring change or control arm bushing maintenance allowing full access...

12-14-2018, 10:42 PM	#4
Ironangel Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Falls City, Nebraska "100 Miles From Nowhere" Posts: 2,219	Re: Tricks for installing swing arm bump-stops? The pic above doesn't show the slot completely...Once the old stop is removed you can take a large screw driver and bend the slot tabs up to open one end allowing you to slide the new stop in. Heat the new stop up in a pan of boiling water while you wire brush the mounting surfaces clean and smooth. Smear some grease on the mount and the new stop and push it on the two tabs that you bent up. When you get it on, use a punch to hammer the tabs back down and your done...This is a job best done when making a spring change or control arm bushing maintenance allowing full access... __________________ Michael of the clan Hill, "Two Seventy Two's" 71 1-ton Dually 350 4-Speed 71 C/50 Grain Truck, 350 Split-Axle 4-Speed 02 3/4 ton Express 14 Indian Chief Vintage 1952 Ford 8N, "Only Ford Allowed On The Property" "Be American, Buy American"