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Old Jan 7, 2008 | 03:51 PM
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I replaced the rear cover for my 1980 with a new one and am trying to install the rear 9 leaf spring. The new bolts supplied to me from Ecklers seem way to short I cannot even start the short front bolt and the rears only grab a few threads. Is there a different set for the 9 leaf stock spring. The spring does have the liners between the leaves.
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Old Jan 7, 2008 | 05:36 PM
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had same problem-replaced the front bolt with a stud and installed 2 longer bolts in the rear of the mount-send me your shipping address and i will send you 2 bolts as i had to buy a pack of 10 as they are metric
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Old Jan 15, 2008 | 09:33 PM
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Thanks for ypour offer but I had some high tensile metrics of the correct size on hand and changed all. Works much better.
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