Sorry for mis-reading your post, I thought you were hving problems with the
shackles. THe spring eye bolts can be a real bear to get out. Shop manual
says to remove the grease fittings, thread in an adapter and use a slide
hammer to pull the pins out of the spring eye bushings. When I did mine, I
couldn't find a big enough slide hammer, so I kluged up a sort of a puller
with a long bolt, spacers and double nuts. It still took overnight soaking
in penetrating oil and a lot of heat. In hindsight it would have been easier
to cut the frame brackets off and have the pins pressed out. Hope you don't
have to resort to that.
-----Original Message-----
From: dunn <jrdunn@erols.com>
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 7:03 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] removel of rear leaf springs
>Please help,
>My son and I are working on a 56 3600 and we have a lot of work ahead of
us.
>We are to a point that we really need help. Is there someone who can tell
us
>how to remove the front end of the rear leaf springs.
>There is a grease fitting at the end and a small nut that looks
>like it's not holding anything in place. Any help would be appreciated
>Jim and Dave
>Smithsburg, Md.
>1956 3600
>
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
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