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View Poll Results: Do leaf spring bolts SUCK?
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Old 03-12-2010, 06:54 PM
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Angry Vote if you've ever caught hell from a leaf spring bolt...

Yeah, spring bolts, if you've ever had to deal with them chances are some cussing was involved....
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Old 03-12-2010, 07:02 PM
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There was much cussing.
Right up to the point when i lit the torch.
Then it was all grins.
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Old 03-12-2010, 07:39 PM
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Jim's car spent it's entire life in NM, the bolts were no problem at all.

Sorry for the guys who were not so fortunate...
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Old 03-12-2010, 07:56 PM
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I haven't gotten to those bolts yet, but hopefully when I do it, my car being a California car will come in handy...
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Old 03-12-2010, 08:00 PM
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Sawzall.
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Old 03-12-2010, 08:40 PM
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I think if you have ever done more than one set of leaf springs you have had bolt problems. Anyone can get lucky once. I'm in Colorado and they are almost always stuck.
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Old 03-12-2010, 08:58 PM
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Here in the northeast I've never met one that wanted to leaf (lol) its home.

BFH and a torch
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Old 03-12-2010, 09:21 PM
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Ah ha ha ha. You funny man
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Old 03-12-2010, 10:29 PM
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I bought a sawzall because I couldn't get the bolt out.... That still didn't work.
Waited till my dad got home from work and he busted out the torch. Luckily we had a hose nearby because there WAS a gas leak. Guess how we found out.
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Old 03-12-2010, 11:58 PM
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Lolz u funny, but every set ive taken off anything suck, when i changed the rear springs on my turbo ranger to mopar SS, it was a torch fest lol havent gotten there on the mustang yet tho, its an Oklahoma car, so im probly f*#ked
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