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Posted by gmharris [71.105.178.157] on Monday, March 28, 2011 at 14:35:13 :
In Reply to: 1964 W300 front spring bushings....need a source posted by AAA [216.177.165.76] on Monday, March 28, 2011 at 10:24:17 :
As far as I can tell, the bushings numbers listed on the parts pages of this site are no longer available at any of the usual suppliers although VPW evidently has them.
I bought bronze bushings for my FFPW off ebay from a company called Industrial Solutions.
Industrial Solutions had all the sizes I needed, their prices were good and they shipped right away.
Here is a link to one of their ebay auctions: http://cgi.ebay.com/Bronze-Bushing-CB1014-14-CB-1014-14-5-8-x-7-8-x-1-3-4-/160522882608?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255fe8ce30
The page has a chart of all their bushings. Just look up the number for the bushing size you need and search ebay for it. They pretty much have an auction for every size bushing you will probably need.
They combine shipping and the bushings for my PW were about four to five dollars each.
After I pressed the bushings into the springs, they had to be reamed out a little. You should probably use a reamer, but I just used a drill bit.
These are cast bronze bushings. Someone will probably say they are not the right ones. But, even so, I'm sure they will work for my purposes. After all, the truck was driving around with no bushings and bolts through the spring eye before I bought it.