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| | | | Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 64 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 64 | I was reading thru my service manual and refers to them as spring seats ,not spring saddles.It states that should you ever need to adlust these to pull you u bolts off take the 2 screws out of the spring seats and then pull the 2 halfs off and put them in a vice and file them down until you have a slight drag when installed back on the axle housing.But in my case it looks like the axle housing has wore a heck of a lot more than the spring seats have .I have a lot of up and down play now where it has wore more from the top of the axle housing than anywhere ,If I file the seats down as they say until I get a slight drag,at what point do I need to worry about it wearing right into the housing?I have about a 1/4 inch play up and down as it sits now.
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