Steer Axle Bushings

[Joe Cannarozzi]

I am finally getting around to installing the radius rod bushings on the tag and the drives. Since it looks like it will be a little longer before we make a rally and I am in there now and I'm doing them. When I did the steer axle I did not have a digital camera and so I am reviving this thread

Here is some initial photos.


This is the right tag tire off and the rear bushings on both the top and bottom rods.
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Here is a bushing that is just ever so slightly starting to go.
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This is the lower arm front bushing for the drive axle. This one is ripe. If you have any like this you need to replace them.
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Here is the rear bushing on the lower rod on the tag. It is dryrotted and all the shoulder is crumbling and deteriorated
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I did not start removal I ran out of daylight but I don't care, I got all summer

Stay tuned for more.

[Joe Cannarozzi]

I began to pull the radius rods off the tag. I could have used air tool but decided by the time I drug everything across the street I could have one off. I started late and would only have time to pull 1 anyway so I decided to see if it could be done with just some hand tools.


First you have a lock washer you need to bend back.
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Somewhere in the thread I posted the nut size and a socket on a 1/2 in impact zips these rite off but this way also only took a minute.
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The smaller nuts are 15/16 and all easily accessible
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The front of this upper rod and it is removed similarly
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[Joe Cannarozzi]

Here is the end of the rod.
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I threaded the nut back on and drove it out
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A simple Stanley knife cut the old one loose
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This is actually where most of the time for this job will be. Cleaning the posts and end of the rods where the rubber has been POUNDED into and onto them
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[Joe Cannarozzi]

Here is the replacement. A block of wood and some W-D and presto.

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I have found hub seal on this corner leaking. Good grief. It started just sitting here because I am sure it was not on the last trip. I had a drive hub leaking when we got it but this is the first tag/steer hub that has failed for us.

[Kenneth Brewer]

Joe, thank you. Your pictures are appreciated.

[phorner]

Great pictures Joe, and nice to have a narrative to go along.

Looks like you're keeping plenty busy!

[Joe Camper]

Here r some changes ive uncovered on a 2012, a chassis I'm currently under but not normally with a chassis so young.

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I was going to try to trick someone with this picture but I'll cut to the chase.

It looks like an upper a arm bushing and it very easily could be, but it isint.

It is a pic of a radius rod bushing on the tag axle on this 2012 and that Bush looks like the bushes they used in the upper arms when ifs first came out, also another part that has gone through 3 or 4 improvement or changes between then and now. I know of 4 different upper arms over the run with ifs.

The drive axle still sports the radius rods with the older style rubber donuts.

Lewpop lives on forever.