HEy had some trouble with a leaf spring bolt that goes through the front bushing into my frame so had to cut it, just wondering if anyone ran into this same problem and if so where do i get another bolt. Ive looked around a bit but cant seem to find any. Thanks

 

I had that same problem. Ended up cutting a hole in the floor to replace the nut. Had a bolt at home already, so i didnt have to buy one.

 

Napa...or any other parts store should have em. I bought 4 bolts and corresponding nuts and washers for 28.00. Get extra...you will need em.

 

its a metric 14mm coarse thread by 90-100 mm long. some people say you can use a 9/16th bolt but i would not recomend it. it needs to be a 10.9 JH bolt whichs means that it is extremely hard metal. if i remember correctly the metric bolt runs 5.50 a piece at ace hardware.

 

So, you cut it on both sides of the eye? that sucks alot if you did. both of mine were seized up and would not budge a bit. i had to cut the eye off the leaf, cut the eye off from the bushing, cut the bushing, then air chisel the metal sleev were the ends meet, heat it up and finally got them out.

if you cut it, you are going to have to cut the floor or cut on the frame bracket to get to the bolt, and knock the weld nut off.

Doing research on what bolts to use led me to just suck it up and go to the dealer to get the right bolts and nuts. yeah it was like 9 bucks a bolt, and 5 bucks a nut, but i have peace of mind that i put the oem stuff on it. I didnt want to take a chance on anything else. I had to replace all 4 back there.

Good luck on whatever you do.

 

Read my write up.

Also, I dont know how anyone goes through the floor, in mine the rear seat brace is right over that bolt.

 

i had to cut all 4 of mine out with an angle grinder. what a pian. I cut both leaf springs into like 5 pieces each.

 

Thanks guys