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<blockquote data-quote="clemsonjeep" data-source="post: 630716" data-attributes="member: 6317"><p>Gotta make one recommendation...from past experience. Please take a little time and pull the front links back out and add a piece of strap around the rod ends and tie them into the link tubing. Can't find the picture I had, but I've got a video of a friends cherocar on Valve Stem at Harlan when the same front lower links split at the rod ends and let the front axle escape.</p><p></p><p>If I remember correctly it looked almost like the tubing they used to encase the rubber bushings was split seam and the way it was welded at the link tubing allowed it to separate. After it happened the rubber bushings were still in the link mounts but one lower was completely pulled away from the axle and the other was hanging on by a thread. We had to rig up a way to get them removed and drive back to camp in Evarts to heat them up, bend them back into shape and re-weld including a piece of flat stock for a strap like I recommended above. It's just not worth having that happen to you and it's a simple thing to do.</p><p></p><p>Otherwise...keep at it! BTW...what front shafts are those?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clemsonjeep, post: 630716, member: 6317"] Gotta make one recommendation...from past experience. Please take a little time and pull the front links back out and add a piece of strap around the rod ends and tie them into the link tubing. Can't find the picture I had, but I've got a video of a friends cherocar on Valve Stem at Harlan when the same front lower links split at the rod ends and let the front axle escape. If I remember correctly it looked almost like the tubing they used to encase the rubber bushings was split seam and the way it was welded at the link tubing allowed it to separate. After it happened the rubber bushings were still in the link mounts but one lower was completely pulled away from the axle and the other was hanging on by a thread. We had to rig up a way to get them removed and drive back to camp in Evarts to heat them up, bend them back into shape and re-weld including a piece of flat stock for a strap like I recommended above. It's just not worth having that happen to you and it's a simple thing to do. Otherwise...keep at it! BTW...what front shafts are those? [/QUOTE]
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