And I found the reason.  

 

 

Yay.  Another win for Minnesota winters.  

 

I thought the racket was just from stuff bouncing in the bed.   Nope.  

 

Im going to replace the passenger shackle as well.  

OUCH 

 

Good thing you caught it before anything disastrous happened

 

L8tr

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I think I know when it happened.  Was 3 weeks ago.  

 

Trucks been driving fine.  

Huh...  

Good luck removing these rusty bolts, I replaced only one shackle the other day just to prevent this very issue, better get ready with bunch of sawzall blades and grinder blades

O that sucks, mine are starting to look pretty sad too. When I first bought my truck I took a hammer and whacked them and a few layers of rust come off. Then I put a coat of paint on there, but I think it's been long enough I might be changing them out before they let go.

Man, that sucks big time. I know what the guys are talking about on the rusty bolts. All I can say is get out the hot knife and heat those up a few cycles and cool them to break the rust bond. The heat trick was past along to me by a old tyme mechanic that passed away. He handed me a rust bolt and nut. I tried to remove the nut from the bolt using any tools he had. Nope, Not happening. I hand it back to him. He heats the bolt up just before it turned red hot. Then quickly tossed it in ice cold water. When he picked it up out of the water then nut came off with his fingers. I've used this trick many times and 90% of the time it still works. It's based on the shock of the extreme heat to the extreme cold.

 

Make me want to get my truck out today and power wash the tail end and get those shackles painted them before they get like yours. 

1 hour ago, Mopar1973Man said:

Man, that sucks big time. I know what the guys are talking about on the rusty bolts. All I can say is get out the hot knife and heat those up a few cycles and cool them to break the rust bond. The heat trick was past along to me by a old tyme mechanic that passed away. He handed me a rust bolt and nut. I tried to remove the nut from the bolt using any tools he had. Nope, Not happening. I hand it back to him. He heats the bolt up just before it turned red hot. Then quickly tossed it in ice cold water. When he picked it up out of the water then nut came off with his fingers. I've used this trick many times and 90% of the time it still works. It's based on the shock of the extreme heat to the extreme cold.

 

Make me want to get my truck out today and power wash the tail end and get those shackles painted them before they get like yours. 

this is the thing to get!

 

http://www.theinductor.com/induction-heating-products/mini-ductor/models/md-700-110v

1 hour ago, CUMMINSDIESELPWR said:

this is the thing to get!

 

http://www.theinductor.com/induction-heating-products/mini-ductor/models/md-700-110v

Cool a new toy. I have my king pin & plate out now. When my brother got the truck new he installed it and never took the pin out. It is stuck solid. I have soaked it in PB blaster, map gassed it and sitting in a 6 ton press now. It has not budged.  That induction heated would get it out in no time I bet.

 

L8tr

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Sorry, didn't mean to hijack. 

Edited June 25, 20186 yr by SilverMoose

Now after watching the video I thought I'd love to add that to the toolbox. For $500 bucks I can keep the old style torch. Wow those are expensive.

Cool but pricey. 

I've witnessed that invention about 30 years ago, my grandfather used to work at the steel factory and they had a thing that looks like a loop mounted to the wall and whatever you stick inside that Loop got white hot in matter of seconds,  but it was cool to the touch. I know because after he got done hitting up a piece of pipe he made me touch the loop, I was freaking out but sure enough it was cold. I believe that's also how new wireless chargers work for phones and random gadgets. 

its just high power induction heating.  you can make them by hand for cheap too.

 

http://www.instructables.com/id/12KW-Induction-Heater/

Edited June 27, 20186 yr by CUMMINSDIESELPWR

That is pretty cool. But I could tell by the first picture that I would better off grabbing the buss bars in my electrical panel and seeing if I could melt the change in my pocket.

46 minutes ago, dripley said:

That is pretty cool. But I could tell by the first picture that I would better off grabbing the buss bars in my electrical panel and seeing if I could melt the change in my pocket.

True story, I had a 9 volt battery in my pocket at work and all the sudden my leg got hot, though I was imagining it then it really got warm, I kinda freaked out because I forgot about the battery in the pocket, but yeah I also had some change in the same pocket. Guys I was with were laughing for a while cause I almost made a little dance pulling that hot battery out. Still get crap about once in a while.  

Ben, it took me a few seconds to process what I was looking at in that picture.  I first thought, why does he have old leather wrapped around the springs...

 

I think the auto manufacturing must contract with the salt/calcium chloride companies to ensure job security.

On 6/29/2018 at 3:48 PM, KATOOM said:

Ben, it took me a few seconds to process what I was looking at in that picture.  I first thought, why does he have old leather wrapped around the springs...

 

I think the auto manufacturing must contract with the salt/calcium chloride companies to ensure job security.

 

Lol. Yay Minnesota winters. 

 

4 hrs total for both sides. Only had to blue tip wrench one bolt. 

 

Truck actually sits higher in the rear now. The old school 70's Chevelle rake that I remember is back. 

On 6/29/2018 at 2:48 PM, KATOOM said:

Ben, it took me a few seconds to process what I was looking at in that picture.  I first thought, why does he have old leather wrapped around the springs...

 

I think the auto manufacturing must contract with the salt/calcium chloride companies to ensure job security.

 

I think the highway district and the glass companies do the same thing out here with the "chip sealing" projects they do every summer.  Oh look, suddenly thousands of cars need new windshields.