Wow - 45 min job turns into all day ordeal!!

Suffice to say, installing 2" drop shackles into my RCSB seemed like a simple father son project to give the truck the right stance.

Driver side went in without a hitch.

Next up, the passenger side.

After 1 hr or turning, cursing, spraying PB Blaster and calling in the NASA engineers (not joking)- it only took another 2 hrs to liberate this beast from its perch.

And despite the thread suggesting similar issues are due to the axle being loaded - that isn't the issue. You could rotate the entire sleeve and bolt in the bushing. This is a corrosion issue.

Suffice to say, the shackle bolt was totally fused to the steel liner in the shackle making it impossible to bang, press, pry, torch or otherwise remove without permanent harm. In the end, 2 Sawzalls (5 blades), 2 air chisels, 4 prybars (including titanium) and 2 angle grinders, air and electric were able to conquer this thing!

Wow - I hope the cam swap doesn't fight me like this.

 

you poor, poor bastard...

I figures you were talking about the hangar bolt on the driver side... gas tank has to come out for that guy, haha

 

I gave up trying to get mine out It's rusted in there for good. I had a breaker bar on it and the head of the bolt was twisting pretty good. I was worried I was gonna snap it so I gave up.

 

Two words

Plasma torch

 

damn, man. thats some seriously rusty looking parts you have there. salt water will do that....

 

i love Texas, just not your neck of the woods.

 

Wow, I didn't think that you had that kind of oxidation in Texas! Every nut and bolt on my truck looks like that, makes it real challenging for sure

 

Yeah - bought this one from Kansas a few months ago off this board. Great little truck, but some of the corrosion has made it challenging. I'm slowly replacing / painting the key underside items - all surface rust except for some sticky fasteners.

 

That sucks man, They look pretty dang rusted lol

Thats what I thought he was talkinn about to, just did mine yesterday and didnt have to pull the tank or take the bed off