While up on Christmas vacation, I spent some time with dad on the truck. We cleaned out the shop and got the frame inside, and started with mounting the new spring perches, and started dis assembly and restoration of the front leaf springs. The truck only has 6 front leaves, and nine rear leaves per side.

The prior perches needed to be replaced. The bolt holes which should be round were instead oval. Seriously? who does not notice this? I decided it was far better to simply replace all the perches vs try to weld the holes closed, and re drill them correctly.

The new perches on the truck. I like the black offsetting the grey. A happy mistake that is working out well. The new perches are bolted with grade 8 bolts, nuts washers and lock washers, loctite’d and torqued to 70 ft lbs. We decided against welding them as well as bolting, because honestly by the time you break these bolts, the truck is going to be having much bigger issues.