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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Wheaton, IL (west chicago)
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So I've got the rear leaf out of the truck and off the rear end.
I wrapped a chain around it, put on two large C-clamps and slowly backed out the center bolt while slowly loosening the clamps. The top 4-5 leafs are now off. The stuff in between is sticky like glue, so I'm glad I'm rebuilding them. Now to the questions.. Should I have taken off the spring end clamps first? It seems to be easier to compress the spring now that 1/2 of the leafs are gone. And by moving the C-clamps to the spring clamps I can now get the spring clamps to wiggle. So how do I take off the spring clamps? Seems to be a rivit or button going thru the strap into the leaf. The strap is held together by what looks to be a long rivit. Are either or both of them re-usable, and if not, where can I get replacements? I was thinking to just chisel off the top rivit...is this correct? I think its cool that strap still has the Ford script on it. ![]() P1110010 (640x480).jpg P1110011 (640x480).jpg
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